Story of a Life: In that dawnHarvill P., 1967 |
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... Café in Stolesh- nikov Lane . Pooling their resources , the journalists had rented an empty second - floor flat , furnished it with café tables and chairs , and a cheerful all - night meeting was held regularly in its smoke - filled ...
... Café in Stolesh- nikov Lane . Pooling their resources , the journalists had rented an empty second - floor flat , furnished it with café tables and chairs , and a cheerful all - night meeting was held regularly in its smoke - filled ...
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... café , wiping the steam off his bulging spectacles and stumbling blindly into the tables . He invariably carried heavy batches of dusty books tied together with telephone flex . Taking off his shabby , old - fashioned overcoat with 47 ...
... café , wiping the steam off his bulging spectacles and stumbling blindly into the tables . He invariably carried heavy batches of dusty books tied together with telephone flex . Taking off his shabby , old - fashioned overcoat with 47 ...
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... café , Shchelkunov gave a lecture on the history of books - it was a poem , a poem of praise . Books , he said , are the sole repository of human thought , its only vehicle of transmission from century to century , from generation to ...
... café , Shchelkunov gave a lecture on the history of books - it was a poem , a poem of praise . Books , he said , are the sole repository of human thought , its only vehicle of transmission from century to century , from generation to ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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