Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 42
... Kherson . Then , on a cloudless morning , two Turkish feluccas from Skutari , colourful as a picture , tied in at the Quarantine Pier - they were the first cargo ships to reach Odessa . Next day the papers announced triumphantly that ...
... Kherson . Then , on a cloudless morning , two Turkish feluccas from Skutari , colourful as a picture , tied in at the Quarantine Pier - they were the first cargo ships to reach Odessa . Next day the papers announced triumphantly that ...
Page 81
... Kherson , explaining , as he said goodbye to Volodya and me , that he didn't want ' this thing to go to his head ' . Before I finish with Ivanov , I ought to relate a number of incidents showing his intractable character . But for the ...
... Kherson , explaining , as he said goodbye to Volodya and me , that he didn't want ' this thing to go to his head ' . Before I finish with Ivanov , I ought to relate a number of incidents showing his intractable character . But for the ...
Page 88
... Kherson oak schooners , the qualities of Sanzheyka melons , the best way to clean the glass in a lighthouse lamp , the speed of red- mullet , the Greco - Turkish war , Barbusse's novel Fire , which had reached Odessa , how to repair a ...
... Kherson oak schooners , the qualities of Sanzheyka melons , the best way to clean the glass in a lighthouse lamp , the speed of red- mullet , the Greco - Turkish war , Barbusse's novel Fire , which had reached Odessa , how to repair a ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
Copyright | |
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