Story of a lifePantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 119
... wanted to read , not to make polite conversation . He soon changed the subject to Kipling , saying that everyone ought to write his kind of steely prose , and to visualise in the clearest detail what he was about to write . A story ...
... wanted to read , not to make polite conversation . He soon changed the subject to Kipling , saying that everyone ought to write his kind of steely prose , and to visualise in the clearest detail what he was about to write . A story ...
Page 148
... wanted to set new , unheard - of roses alight on earth . And he did : And roses , autumn roses I dream at every step Through mist and fire and frost On the light , white snow . You wish you had seen Blok . Naturally ! But if I had an ...
... wanted to set new , unheard - of roses alight on earth . And he did : And roses , autumn roses I dream at every step Through mist and fire and frost On the light , white snow . You wish you had seen Blok . Naturally ! But if I had an ...
Page 160
... wanted to live in it . But the tower remained and was mentioned in all the Black Sea navigation manuals . It seems that it was an important landmark on the way to Odessa , so it was preserved and people were forbidden to pull it down ...
... wanted to live in it . But the tower remained and was mentioned in all the Black Sea navigation manuals . It seems that it was an important landmark on the way to Odessa , so it was preserved and people were forbidden to pull it down ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
Copyright | |
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