The Story of a Life: In that dawnPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 24
... sitting on the floor with their old Nanny . The old woman had wrapped them up , head and all , in a thick woollen shawl . ' We're safe here , ' said the landlord . " The bullets won't go through the house . ' ' Are the Germans shooting ...
... sitting on the floor with their old Nanny . The old woman had wrapped them up , head and all , in a thick woollen shawl . ' We're safe here , ' said the landlord . " The bullets won't go through the house . ' ' Are the Germans shooting ...
Page 40
... sit at her spider - legged desk and play politics and shed tears over her own articles about the Russian peasant . But just one word from a real peasant and you'd all have fits . Goodbye . I'll come back some other time . I don't feel ...
... sit at her spider - legged desk and play politics and shed tears over her own articles about the Russian peasant . But just one word from a real peasant and you'd all have fits . Goodbye . I'll come back some other time . I don't feel ...
Page 62
... sitting side- ways inside the carriage was a remarkably attractive peasant girl . ' Will you strike another match ? ' I asked him . He hurriedly struck one and I noticed that he was looking at the photo as attentively as I was and ...
... sitting side- ways inside the carriage was a remarkably attractive peasant girl . ' Will you strike another match ? ' I asked him . He hurriedly struck one and I noticed that he was looking at the photo as attentively as I was and ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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