The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 13
... things , ' said Mother , ' all the useless things . ' ' In the Zhitny Market , ' added Galya . ' What do we want a samovar for , for instance ? Or old velvet - covered albums with family photos ? We had four of them . Mrs Kozlowska had ...
... things , ' said Mother , ' all the useless things . ' ' In the Zhitny Market , ' added Galya . ' What do we want a samovar for , for instance ? Or old velvet - covered albums with family photos ? We had four of them . Mrs Kozlowska had ...
Page 93
... things . But every time a blind inner force of inertia compelled me to proceed along the line of least resistance , to adopt some external subject and to yield to my propensity for extraordinary situations , extraordinary people and ...
... things . But every time a blind inner force of inertia compelled me to proceed along the line of least resistance , to adopt some external subject and to yield to my propensity for extraordinary situations , extraordinary people and ...
Page 150
... things and grasp- ing the power and poetry of the most unassuming souls and seemingly most insignificant things as the breeze over the common bringing with it the smell of smoke and swaying the red- brown plumes of horse sorrel ...
... things and grasp- ing the power and poetry of the most unassuming souls and seemingly most insignificant things as the breeze over the common bringing with it the smell of smoke and swaying the red- brown plumes of horse sorrel ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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