The Story of a Life: In that dawnPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 32
... remember that gate - post in the minutest detail . I remember that there were seven bullet holes . They were white outside ( where the bullets had gone through plaster ) and red in the middle ( where the brick was exposed ) . I remember ...
... remember that gate - post in the minutest detail . I remember that there were seven bullet holes . They were white outside ( where the bullets had gone through plaster ) and red in the middle ( where the brick was exposed ) . I remember ...
Page 148
... remember only the be- ginning , ' Obgubsnabchuprod After that it became so complicated that even the director , a fat Armenian with a short black beard and a Mauser slung like a camera round his neck , frowned and snorted every time he ...
... remember only the be- ginning , ' Obgubsnabchuprod After that it became so complicated that even the director , a fat Armenian with a short black beard and a Mauser slung like a camera round his neck , frowned and snorted every time he ...
Page 192
... remembering developed too early — when I was still a boy - and turned into a game . What I liked to recall was not the consecutive order of events . Instead , I grouped them , as it were , under certain headings . Thus I would think of ...
... remembering developed too early — when I was still a boy - and turned into a game . What I liked to recall was not the consecutive order of events . Instead , I grouped them , as it were , under certain headings . Thus I would think of ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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