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Page 82
... Moscow because the porous stone of which the town was built let in the piercing damp of the seaside . Covered with a film of ice , houses and roads shone like enamel . The wind howled with misery in all the streets that ran from south ...
... Moscow because the porous stone of which the town was built let in the piercing damp of the seaside . Covered with a film of ice , houses and roads shone like enamel . The wind howled with misery in all the streets that ran from south ...
Page 152
... Moscow , at the begin- ning of the war . He was taking part in one of Igor Severyanin's 27 recitals and reading his own poems in the intervals . They were poems about his native , stony Kerch , an ancient land where ' Scythians ...
... Moscow , at the begin- ning of the war . He was taking part in one of Igor Severyanin's 27 recitals and reading his own poems in the intervals . They were poems about his native , stony Kerch , an ancient land where ' Scythians ...
Page 223
... Moscow in 1917 ( In that Dawn ) . I. A. Bunin ( 1817-1953 ) , novelist ( Slow Approach of Thunder ) . The rest are friends and acquaintances described in previous volumes . 37 Alexander Pushkin ( 1799-1837 ) , probably the greatest ...
... Moscow in 1917 ( In that Dawn ) . I. A. Bunin ( 1817-1953 ) , novelist ( Slow Approach of Thunder ) . The rest are friends and acquaintances described in previous volumes . 37 Alexander Pushkin ( 1799-1837 ) , probably the greatest ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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