The Story of a Life: In that dawnPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 205
... Yasha Lifshits , a Petrograd journalist . Homeless , he had joined us as the third lodger at Dr Landesman's . A dishevelled , restless little man , he was known as ' Yasha on Roller - skates ' because of his extraordinary walk . He took ...
... Yasha Lifshits , a Petrograd journalist . Homeless , he had joined us as the third lodger at Dr Landesman's . A dishevelled , restless little man , he was known as ' Yasha on Roller - skates ' because of his extraordinary walk . He took ...
Page 210
... Yasha , late on an autumn evening . The only way to be safe in the streets at night was to stick to certain rules : no smoking , talking or coughing ; walk softly ; keep closely to the walls or in the shadow of trees ; stop , look and ...
... Yasha , late on an autumn evening . The only way to be safe in the streets at night was to stick to certain rules : no smoking , talking or coughing ; walk softly ; keep closely to the walls or in the shadow of trees ; stop , look and ...
Page 211
... Yasha stumbled . Afterwards , whenever we talked about it , he insisted that the harder you try to do your best , the surer you are to be brought to grief by some footling accident . Personally , I thought the whole trouble had been due ...
... Yasha stumbled . Afterwards , whenever we talked about it , he insisted that the harder you try to do your best , the surer you are to be brought to grief by some footling accident . Personally , I thought the whole trouble had been due ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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