The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 60
... deserted as it was that year - and observed , wrapped in an old , balding fur coat . ' Good ! ' he would say . ' It's exactly what I need . These caps look as if they've gathered in the whole silence of winter . ' ' Decadent writer ...
... deserted as it was that year - and observed , wrapped in an old , balding fur coat . ' Good ! ' he would say . ' It's exactly what I need . These caps look as if they've gathered in the whole silence of winter . ' ' Decadent writer ...
Page 127
... deserted bank of the river Oka near the ferryman's cottage . Behind us , lush and green , were the steep hills of the right bank . It was that ancient bank so intim- ately bound up with Russia's history , with decaying fortress ...
... deserted bank of the river Oka near the ferryman's cottage . Behind us , lush and green , were the steep hills of the right bank . It was that ancient bank so intim- ately bound up with Russia's history , with decaying fortress ...
Page 149
... deserted . We each probably invest these maps with our own notions of a terrestrial paradise , of rich and happy lands to which our thoughts go out from our earliest years . And here was a shred of a map of just such a land - and not of ...
... deserted . We each probably invest these maps with our own notions of a terrestrial paradise , of rich and happy lands to which our thoughts go out from our earliest years . And here was a shred of a map of just such a land - and not of ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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