The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 86
... girl's parents had given her the magnificent name of Evolucia . But later they thought better of it , lopped off the beginning of the name and the girl remained for ever Lucia . Anyway , Lucia's everlasting plaintive muttering : ' I'm ...
... girl's parents had given her the magnificent name of Evolucia . But later they thought better of it , lopped off the beginning of the name and the girl remained for ever Lucia . Anyway , Lucia's everlasting plaintive muttering : ' I'm ...
Page 107
... girls in black tight silk bodices and puff sleeves and tightly pulled - back hair . All the girls had very Russian , open faces and grey eyes . Of course one could not tell the colour of their eyes in the photographs , but I imagined ...
... girls in black tight silk bodices and puff sleeves and tightly pulled - back hair . All the girls had very Russian , open faces and grey eyes . Of course one could not tell the colour of their eyes in the photographs , but I imagined ...
Page 170
... girls - students from Leningrad doing a practical course - were sleeping on the neighbouring bunks , just visible in the dusk . Both of them struck me as being beautiful , obviously because they had golden plaits which lay in disorder ...
... girls - students from Leningrad doing a practical course - were sleeping on the neighbouring bunks , just visible in the dusk . Both of them struck me as being beautiful , obviously because they had golden plaits which lay in disorder ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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