The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 84
... short story with the elegant title of " The Dust of the Land of Farsistan ' . This title seemed to me very alluring , though it had no truth in it . For the action in the story took place in the extreme north of Persia ( I had been ...
... short story with the elegant title of " The Dust of the Land of Farsistan ' . This title seemed to me very alluring , though it had no truth in it . For the action in the story took place in the extreme north of Persia ( I had been ...
Page 102
... short stories and read the sentence : ' It was quiet in provincial Russia ' I felt a lump in my throat , it was so good . Scarcely anything by Platonov was published . If ever on some rare occasion , a story by him appeared anywhere he ...
... short stories and read the sentence : ' It was quiet in provincial Russia ' I felt a lump in my throat , it was so good . Scarcely anything by Platonov was published . If ever on some rare occasion , a story by him appeared anywhere he ...
Page 219
... short story writer who enjoyed a great vogue in the seventies and eighties of the last century . 39. Kassian of ... short story writer . 48. Alexander Pismenny ( b.1909 ) : novelist and short story writer . 49. Boris Lavrenev ( 1891-1956 ) ...
... short story writer who enjoyed a great vogue in the seventies and eighties of the last century . 39. Kassian of ... short story writer . 48. Alexander Pismenny ( b.1909 ) : novelist and short story writer . 49. Boris Lavrenev ( 1891-1956 ) ...
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