The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 13
... woman next door , who does knitting , gives me yarn to roll into large balls , these days . She pays me two roubles a ball . ' ' While Galya rolls yarn into balls I read to her , ' said Mother . ' Now you realize how we live , don't you ...
... woman next door , who does knitting , gives me yarn to roll into large balls , these days . She pays me two roubles a ball . ' ' While Galya rolls yarn into balls I read to her , ' said Mother . ' Now you realize how we live , don't you ...
Page 128
... woman . As he went off to join his unit and said goodbye to her , he did not look back . It was beyond his strength . There are ordeals which no man should ever be made to suffer . They are too pitiless and they conflict with what is ...
... woman . As he went off to join his unit and said goodbye to her , he did not look back . It was beyond his strength . There are ordeals which no man should ever be made to suffer . They are too pitiless and they conflict with what is ...
Page 147
... woman , bent double , and supporting herself on a stick - his mother and shouted in her ear that she had in front of her the first Russians in Aigues - Mortes . The old woman kept nodding at us affectionately and pressed a handker ...
... woman , bent double , and supporting herself on a stick - his mother and shouted in her ear that she had in front of her the first Russians in Aigues - Mortes . The old woman kept nodding at us affectionately and pressed a handker ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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