Story of a lifePantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 159
... snow every winter , and when the snow does come it stays only a few days and leaves the thawed - out earth smelling faintly of spring ? That autumn of 1921 was dry and burnt to its very core . The trouble about walking to Ovidiopol was ...
... snow every winter , and when the snow does come it stays only a few days and leaves the thawed - out earth smelling faintly of spring ? That autumn of 1921 was dry and burnt to its very core . The trouble about walking to Ovidiopol was ...
Page 197
... snow . Iron darkness lay all around . In this gloom , very near but not inside the bay , the surf thundered for ... snow glittered in the hollows . The plain , level as a taught string , receded into muddy mist . Above the mist scudded ...
... snow . Iron darkness lay all around . In this gloom , very near but not inside the bay , the surf thundered for ... snow glittered in the hollows . The plain , level as a taught string , receded into muddy mist . Above the mist scudded ...
Page 201
... snow on deck . Behind the stern lay the inky wall of the receding fog . And in the quiet of the bays , in the sparing radiance of the winter sun , in morning clarity and in all its vivid , colourful seaside charm , Sebastopol stood ...
... snow on deck . Behind the stern lay the inky wall of the receding fog . And in the quiet of the bays , in the sparing radiance of the winter sun , in morning clarity and in all its vivid , colourful seaside charm , Sebastopol stood ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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