Story of a lifePantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 160
... whole charm of the way , its compelling fascination for me , lay in its nearness to the sea . At no point were the cliffs too far for me to hear the waves and smell the seaweed . away I had only to bend down and pick up a white stone ...
... whole charm of the way , its compelling fascination for me , lay in its nearness to the sea . At no point were the cliffs too far for me to hear the waves and smell the seaweed . away I had only to bend down and pick up a white stone ...
Page 185
... whole seedy appearance spoke of how much life had changed since Sashka's day . ' Call it life when to shoe a single miserable devil of a horse costs you close on a million ? A million in the old days would have bought you the whole ...
... whole seedy appearance spoke of how much life had changed since Sashka's day . ' Call it life when to shoe a single miserable devil of a horse costs you close on a million ? A million in the old days would have bought you the whole ...
Page 197
... whole ship was fast asleep . Only the young midshipman looked up and mumbled something that was trying even now to be a joke about ' sleeping like the dead in a dead calm ' . But he must at once have dropped his head back on his ...
... whole ship was fast asleep . Only the young midshipman looked up and mumbled something that was trying even now to be a joke about ' sleeping like the dead in a dead calm ' . But he must at once have dropped his head back on his ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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