The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 55
... seemed to me as if the echo , too , had frozen solid and that was why it gave out a ringing sound like thin ice broken by a stone . The frost in Pushkino was such that the air seemed to steam . ' Forty degrees below zero , if not more ...
... seemed to me as if the echo , too , had frozen solid and that was why it gave out a ringing sound like thin ice broken by a stone . The frost in Pushkino was such that the air seemed to steam . ' Forty degrees below zero , if not more ...
Page 163
... seemed hardly able to force its way through the taut con- tracted vessels of the brain . In the mornings , while it was still possible to move about in Krasnovodsk , I used to go to the railway station and look with longing at the ...
... seemed hardly able to force its way through the taut con- tracted vessels of the brain . In the mornings , while it was still possible to move about in Krasnovodsk , I used to go to the railway station and look with longing at the ...
Page 164
... seemed to have no mean- ing so far as their internal life was concerned . It has always seemed to me that literary characters like these are not live people , but experimental beings for the use of writers and dramatists , taken by them ...
... seemed to have no mean- ing so far as their internal life was concerned . It has always seemed to me that literary characters like these are not live people , but experimental beings for the use of writers and dramatists , taken by them ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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