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Page 82
... seemed colder even than in 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 ...
... seemed colder even than in 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 ...
Page 93
... seemed to have the kind of daring rarely shown by Russian journalists - rather like Stanley who pursued Livingstone to darkest Africa out of sheer sporting instinct . In Russia there was scarcely another journalist of Reginin's sort ...
... seemed to have the kind of daring rarely shown by Russian journalists - rather like Stanley who pursued Livingstone to darkest Africa out of sheer sporting instinct . In Russia there was scarcely another journalist of Reginin's sort ...
Page 151
... seemed to dislike him . I asked Bagritsky , but he was evasive . In the end I assumed that baiting Shengeli was a form of literary sport . It added to the zest of life in Odessa's poetic circles . Shengeli seemed to me to enter into the ...
... seemed to dislike him . I asked Bagritsky , but he was evasive . In the end I assumed that baiting Shengeli was a form of literary sport . It added to the zest of life in Odessa's poetic circles . Shengeli seemed to me to enter into the ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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