Story of a lifePantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 57
... turned up at the end of a week , safe , but exhausted and batty . And although he had saved them from a house search , the tenants turned on him to a man . Never a day passed without some new comic story being spread about him ...
... turned up at the end of a week , safe , but exhausted and batty . And although he had saved them from a house search , the tenants turned on him to a man . Never a day passed without some new comic story being spread about him ...
Page 68
... turned up , but went off as soon as he saw me , even his back looking indignant . After Rachel's funeral , Volodya and I ceased to take any notice of him . No one else paid him any attention either , even as a land- lord . He resented ...
... turned up , but went off as soon as he saw me , even his back looking indignant . After Rachel's funeral , Volodya and I ceased to take any notice of him . No one else paid him any attention either , even as a land- lord . He resented ...
Page 75
... turned up one day - brown , friendly and hungry . But as Abyssinia had no fleet , we had to decline his services . He went away in tears . But Ivanov had a warm and generous heart . He brought him back , questioned him , and found out ...
... turned up one day - brown , friendly and hungry . But as Abyssinia had no fleet , we had to decline his services . He went away in tears . But Ivanov had a warm and generous heart . He brought him back , questioned him , and found out ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
Copyright | |
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