The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 82
... . Home woven woollen carpets were sold in the bazzar , with such flaming roses and madly green - vine leaves that the customer would quail and blanch . Slender - waisted wasps in that bazaar hummed on one 82 The Restless Years.
... . Home woven woollen carpets were sold in the bazzar , with such flaming roses and madly green - vine leaves that the customer would quail and blanch . Slender - waisted wasps in that bazaar hummed on one 82 The Restless Years.
Page 91
... leaves of aspens along river banks , and make them float down to the ground . Possibly my attitude to language is too strict , too rever- ent . But it cannot be otherwise . Had it been I should have taken up book - keeping or something ...
... leaves of aspens along river banks , and make them float down to the ground . Possibly my attitude to language is too strict , too rever- ent . But it cannot be otherwise . Had it been I should have taken up book - keeping or something ...
Page 98
... leaves left from last year . The leaves were black and smelled of sourish wine . They could not be used to make a wreath for the poet . Someone had placed a few such leaves instead of a wreath at his feet in the coffin . They were not ...
... leaves left from last year . The leaves were black and smelled of sourish wine . They could not be used to make a wreath for the poet . Someone had placed a few such leaves instead of a wreath at his feet in the coffin . They were not ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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