Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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... boys popped out , and im- mediately , powerful maternal voices echoed through the yards : ' Back , you little pests . Come back at once ! ' Shaking the windows , a lorry with a load of broken furniture rumbled slowly past . A soldier ...
... boys popped out , and im- mediately , powerful maternal voices echoed through the yards : ' Back , you little pests . Come back at once ! ' Shaking the windows , a lorry with a load of broken furniture rumbled slowly past . A soldier ...
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... boy called Milya . The boy slept and snored , while Zusman 115 What do you want , Young Man ?
... boy called Milya . The boy slept and snored , while Zusman 115 What do you want , Young Man ?
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... boys with nothing whatever to do . Kurs , the editor - the kindest of men ( though he played the ruthless commissar ) – had gathered all these urchins and given them bread - cards . Totally unemployed , they played snap or noughts and ...
... boys with nothing whatever to do . Kurs , the editor - the kindest of men ( though he played the ruthless commissar ) – had gathered all these urchins and given them bread - cards . Totally unemployed , they played snap or noughts and ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
Copyright | |
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