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The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin is a novel by P. D. Ouspensky that explores the concept of time and the choices we make in life. The story follows Ivan Osokin, a young man who feels trapped in a cycle of repeating the same mistakes over and over again. He is given the opportunity to go back in time and change his past, but finds himself making the same choices again and again. As he becomes increasingly disillusioned, he begins to question the nature of reality and the purpose of his existence. This large print edition makes the text accessible to readers with visual impairments.(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1947. The novel begins: On the screen at Kursk station in Moscow. A bright April day of 1902. A group of friends, who came to see Zinaida Krutitsky and her mother off to the Crimea, stand on the platform by the sleeping-car. Among them Ivan Osokin, a young man about twenty-six. Osokin is visibly agitated although he tries not to show it. Zinaida is talking to her brother, Michail, Osokin's friend, a young officer in the uniform of one of the Moscow Grenadier regiments and two girls. Then she turns to Osokin and walks aside with him.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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