The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 57
... held my forehead in its icy grip . This was giving me a headache . I came to in the morning , if a grey twilight , a ghostly shadow which crept into the room and immediately fell into darkness on the floor , could be called morning ...
... held my forehead in its icy grip . This was giving me a headache . I came to in the morning , if a grey twilight , a ghostly shadow which crept into the room and immediately fell into darkness on the floor , could be called morning ...
Page 166
... held responsible . You are a Moscow correspondent , after all . ' In the ' isolator ' I could at last breathe freely and sleep to my heart's content . The occupant of the next bunk to mine was a charming man a deportee chemist , a ...
... held responsible . You are a Moscow correspondent , after all . ' In the ' isolator ' I could at last breathe freely and sleep to my heart's content . The occupant of the next bunk to mine was a charming man a deportee chemist , a ...
Page 210
... held - back tears more difficult to bear than the most desperate sobbing . And yet he read out to me a venomous epigram he had just composed , directed against a critic , and when we were saying goodbye , he gripped my sun- tanned hand ...
... held - back tears more difficult to bear than the most desperate sobbing . And yet he read out to me a venomous epigram he had just composed , directed against a critic , and when we were saying goodbye , he gripped my sun- tanned hand ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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