The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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... fire lit them up to the very heart . A short gust of wind over the fields bent the rye to the soil . But the thunderstorm never came . August had probably lost by then its power to produce storms . They could no longer roll along the ...
... fire lit them up to the very heart . A short gust of wind over the fields bent the rye to the soil . But the thunderstorm never came . August had probably lost by then its power to produce storms . They could no longer roll along the ...
Page 43
... fire . On each such occasion Zuzenko and the other passengers would embark upon a confused technical argument with the conductor and try to convince him that the carriage ' would not sag and the axle - box would not catch fire ...
... fire . On each such occasion Zuzenko and the other passengers would embark upon a confused technical argument with the conductor and try to convince him that the carriage ' would not sag and the axle - box would not catch fire ...
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... fires . Men were waiting to be saved from thousands of years of helpless sufferings . The man who knew what had to be ... fire in the stove had burned itself out , but by the light of the glowing embers I saw that it was already six o ...
... fires . Men were waiting to be saved from thousands of years of helpless sufferings . The man who knew what had to be ... fire in the stove had burned itself out , but by the light of the glowing embers I saw that it was already six o ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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