Story of a lifePantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 9
Page 170
... Kira . ' Keel , keel , keel ! ' she called back , shouting for the first time and hopping on her good leg . Kira collected keel , soaked it , kneaded it like dough , cut it up into small cakes and put them to dry on the beach . Then at ...
... Kira . ' Keel , keel , keel ! ' she called back , shouting for the first time and hopping on her good leg . Kira collected keel , soaked it , kneaded it like dough , cut it up into small cakes and put them to dry on the beach . Then at ...
Page 171
... Kira was always finding bits of bottle - glass rolled smooth by the sea . She mistook them for precious stones . She ... Kira's first and highly practical comment : " Tulips grow from bulbs , not seeds . We had one at home . And if you ...
... Kira was always finding bits of bottle - glass rolled smooth by the sea . She mistook them for precious stones . She ... Kira's first and highly practical comment : " Tulips grow from bulbs , not seeds . We had one at home . And if you ...
Page 172
... Kira was watching me with narrowed , laughing eyes . Of course the flower - growers could not have started their war over a tulip seed . At best , they must have started it over a bulb . Ever since , I have kept firmly to the unwritten ...
... Kira was watching me with narrowed , laughing eyes . Of course the flower - growers could not have started their war over a tulip seed . At best , they must have started it over a bulb . Ever since , I have kept firmly to the unwritten ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
Copyright | |
21 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
asked Babel Bagritsky Batumi beach Black Sea Street Blok blue Bolsheviks Captain cliffs coat colour Commissar Comrade Crimea dacha dark dawn deck Dimitry door eyes face felt floor French garden Gavarsaki gave Georges Sand glycerine soap grey Gronfein hand head heard heart Ivanov Izya Kherson Kiev Kira knew Kostandi Krupnik laughing light living looked Lucian Lucienna Lyova Majorca Midshipman Mironov Moldavanka morning Moscow Motya never night Ochakov Odessa once Oprodkomgub Ostap Bender paper Pestel poet port Prosvirnyak pulled quiet Reginin roubles Russian sailing sailors Sasha Cherny Seaman Sebastopol seemed Shengeli ships shouted silent sleep smell smelt smoke sound steamer steppe stood storm story Sukhodolsky tell thing told took Torelli town trouble Tsires turned voice Vorontsov lighthouse waited walked wall warm wind window write Yadov Yasha young