Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 15
Page 73
... captain of an ocean - going liner . But Ivanov's drive , imagination and resourcefulness proved too much for him and the aged captain virtually gave up his job and retired to his villa in Arcadia . Ivanov , who , as I have already said ...
... captain of an ocean - going liner . But Ivanov's drive , imagination and resourcefulness proved too much for him and the aged captain virtually gave up his job and retired to his villa in Arcadia . Ivanov , who , as I have already said ...
Page 196
... Captain grinned . " The wireless operator won't send anything without my permission . But I'll go and lie down for a bit . In three hours ' time we'll be entering Karadzhi Bay . ' He pointed at a small circle on the map . ' Here it is ...
... Captain grinned . " The wireless operator won't send anything without my permission . But I'll go and lie down for a bit . In three hours ' time we'll be entering Karadzhi Bay . ' He pointed at a small circle on the map . ' Here it is ...
Page 199
... Captain of being high - handed . Besides , there was nothing to eat . Taking advantage of the rule covering ' accidents at sea ' , the Captain ordered the hold to be opened and our small cargo of barley for the Crimea to be distributed ...
... Captain of being high - handed . Besides , there was nothing to eat . Taking advantage of the rule covering ' accidents at sea ' , the Captain ordered the hold to be opened and our small cargo of barley for the Crimea to be distributed ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
Copyright | |
21 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
asked Babel Bagritsky Batumi beach Black Sea Street Blok blue Bolsheviks Captain cliffs coat colour Commissar Comrade Crimea dacha dark dawn deck Dimitry door eyes face felt floor French garden Gavarsaki gave Georges Sand glycerine soap grey Gronfein hand head heard heart Ivanov Izya Kherson Kiev Kira knew Kostandi Krupnik laughing light living looked Lucian Lucienna Lyova Majorca Midshipman Mironov Moldavanka morning Moscow Motya never night Ochakov Odessa once Oprodkomgub Ostap Bender paper Pestel poet port Prosvirnyak pulled quiet Reginin roubles Russian sailing sailors Sasha Cherny Seaman Sebastopol seemed Shengeli ships shouted silent sleep smell smelt smoke sound steamer steppe stood storm story Sukhodolsky tell thing told took Torelli town trouble Tsires turned voice Vorontsov lighthouse waited walked wall warm wind window write Yadov Yasha young