The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 22
Page 80
... birds washed themselves in tin troughs , fluttering their wings . According to Bagritsky these were the rarest and the most expensive of birds , though they looked very ordinary and rather pathetic . He bought them at bazaars on the ...
... birds washed themselves in tin troughs , fluttering their wings . According to Bagritsky these were the rarest and the most expensive of birds , though they looked very ordinary and rather pathetic . He bought them at bazaars on the ...
Page 81
... bird hops about on the threshing floor , picks at the grain , twitters , deceives the free birds and they fly down on to the threshing floor without trepidation . The bird catcher , lying motionless in his hiding place , then pulls a ...
... bird hops about on the threshing floor , picks at the grain , twitters , deceives the free birds and they fly down on to the threshing floor without trepidation . The bird catcher , lying motionless in his hiding place , then pulls a ...
Page 87
... birds not two thousand roubles , but , say , a fifth of that sum : four hundred roubles . ' ' Right ! ' confirmed Bagritsky . " This cannot be allowed , ' said Babel in icy tones . ' Under any circumstances . Two hundred roubles should ...
... birds not two thousand roubles , but , say , a fifth of that sum : four hundred roubles . ' ' Right ! ' confirmed Bagritsky . " This cannot be allowed , ' said Babel in icy tones . ' Under any circumstances . Two hundred roubles should ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
21 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aigues-Mortes asked Astrakhan Babel Bagritsky Bagritsky's banks Berezniki besprizorniki birds Black Sea boys breath Bulgakov Caspian Sea Cherdyn Chulkov cigarettes Colchis cold colour course dark deserted Devonian dust Elista everything eyes face Father Peter felt flowers forests Gaidar Galya garden girls grey Gudok hand happened Hecht Ivanov Kalmyk Kara-Bugaz Kiev knew Konotop Kostik Krasnovodsk Lake Onega light liman literary little town lived Livny looked Lusha Maleyevka Mayakovsky Meshchery Moscow Mother never night Nodia novelist Odessa Palace of Labour passengers Petrozavodsk poems poet poetry Poti Pushkino quiet rain river Roskin round Russian Ryazan seemed short story silence sitting smell smoke snow Solikamsk Soviet Stalin steamer steppes suddenly Tarusa Taya things thought tiny took train trees turned Vaso Vertushinka village voice walls warm window words writer wrote young Zuzenko