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Page 118
Константин Паустовский. 14 I Promise you Maupassant The Seaman printed a short story called ' The King ' . It was signed I. Babel . 20 It was the story of an Odessa bandit chief , Benzion ( ' Benny ' ) the Scream , who married off his ...
Константин Паустовский. 14 I Promise you Maupassant The Seaman printed a short story called ' The King ' . It was signed I. Babel . 20 It was the story of an Odessa bandit chief , Benzion ( ' Benny ' ) the Scream , who married off his ...
Page 140
... stories were almost like telegrams ! Who packed everything into the smallest possible space . For whom a story of ten pages was much too long and surely padded ! A hundred pages of his concentrated prose ? No , it couldn't be ! I looked ...
... stories were almost like telegrams ! Who packed everything into the smallest possible space . For whom a story of ten pages was much too long and surely padded ! A hundred pages of his concentrated prose ? No , it couldn't be ! I looked ...
Page 184
... story with the character of great art . It was almost incredible to me that Sashka - the Sashka I had known since my childhood as the hero of a story - had actually been living next door , in the garret of an old Odessa house . But I ...
... story with the character of great art . It was almost incredible to me that Sashka - the Sashka I had known since my childhood as the hero of a story - had actually been living next door , in the garret of an old Odessa house . But I ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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