The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 67
... reason we all sat in silence . Grin was silent too . I said nothing , though I wanted terribly to tell him how much beauty and interest the soaring flight of his imagination had brought into my life when I was young , what magic ...
... reason we all sat in silence . Grin was silent too . I said nothing , though I wanted terribly to tell him how much beauty and interest the soaring flight of his imagination had brought into my life when I was young , what magic ...
Page 154
... reason that vehicles frighten bustling marmots and jerboas . The marmots then start rushing about all over the road without rhyme or reason and the eagles catch them lazily and surely . The vehicles apparently play the part of fox ...
... reason that vehicles frighten bustling marmots and jerboas . The marmots then start rushing about all over the road without rhyme or reason and the eagles catch them lazily and surely . The vehicles apparently play the part of fox ...
Page 211
... reason the poet called him ' a little birdlet ' ) and myself . The economist spoke to us exclusively on literary subjects ; on the principle , it would seem , of ' when with writers , do as writers do ' . We felt utterly exhausted by ...
... reason the poet called him ' a little birdlet ' ) and myself . The economist spoke to us exclusively on literary subjects ; on the principle , it would seem , of ' when with writers , do as writers do ' . We felt utterly exhausted by ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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