Story of a lifePantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Константин Паустовский. infection . They , too , came to believe in the ancient law of the junk - market : ' If you want to eat , know how to sell the sleeves of a waistcoat . ' In time , the rackets infiltrated even our literary and ...
Константин Паустовский. infection . They , too , came to believe in the ancient law of the junk - market : ' If you want to eat , know how to sell the sleeves of a waistcoat . ' In time , the rackets infiltrated even our literary and ...
Page 139
... believe , they were like plants covered with fine dew - drops . You can no longer see the plant itself , although you recognise its shape . I said this one evening to Babel . We were sitting on the parapet on the cliff . Babel was ...
... believe , they were like plants covered with fine dew - drops . You can no longer see the plant itself , although you recognise its shape . I said this one evening to Babel . We were sitting on the parapet on the cliff . Babel was ...
Page 213
... believe , so exact a picture of those imaginary cities of Grin's his noisy Zurbagan and weed - grown Liss - towns which must undoubtedly exist somewhere in the universe . 40 - I was struck by the fact that on the blessed 213 Dead of Night.
... believe , so exact a picture of those imaginary cities of Grin's his noisy Zurbagan and weed - grown Liss - towns which must undoubtedly exist somewhere in the universe . 40 - I was struck by the fact that on the blessed 213 Dead of Night.
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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