The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 33
... noise like a penknife . And the all - too - dry tobacco spilled out into the beer or into the plates of cloudy soup . On tables in the canteen stood pots of hydrangeas - large balls of watery - pink flowers on long naked stems . Those ...
... noise like a penknife . And the all - too - dry tobacco spilled out into the beer or into the plates of cloudy soup . On tables in the canteen stood pots of hydrangeas - large balls of watery - pink flowers on long naked stems . Those ...
Page 188
... noise running down the stairs , particularly if at the same time they sang a song fashionable at the time : We went ... noises that in that frenzied screeching the last vestiges of any kind of language were irre- trievably lost . The ...
... noise running down the stairs , particularly if at the same time they sang a song fashionable at the time : We went ... noises that in that frenzied screeching the last vestiges of any kind of language were irre- trievably lost . The ...
Page 212
... noise and kept away from such loud voiced poets . ' Doesn't matter ! ' he would reply . ' They must get used to that . You may not be interested in listening to my poetry , but for the fish it is capital entertainment . They have a ...
... noise and kept away from such loud voiced poets . ' Doesn't matter ! ' he would reply . ' They must get used to that . You may not be interested in listening to my poetry , but for the fish it is capital entertainment . They have a ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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