Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 81
... dawn was breaking over the sea , the first birds were twitter- ing cautiously in the plane trees on the boulevard , and it smelt strongly of mattiola . Nearly all the sailors were still there . They were pale with sleeplessness , and ...
... dawn was breaking over the sea , the first birds were twitter- ing cautiously in the plane trees on the boulevard , and it smelt strongly of mattiola . Nearly all the sailors were still there . They were pale with sleeplessness , and ...
Page 88
... dawn , and the golden light in the eastern sky seemed to us youngsters , in our lyrical mood , the glow of approaching happiness , a reflection of the golden age so near at hand . The golden light in the sky merged with the golden ...
... dawn , and the golden light in the eastern sky seemed to us youngsters , in our lyrical mood , the glow of approaching happiness , a reflection of the golden age so near at hand . The golden light in the sky merged with the golden ...
Page 148
... dawn as a deliverance . He took the revolution into his poet's world and he wrote The Twelve . He really was a prophet , of course . Both in his visions and in that shattering music he heard in the sound of Russian speech . - ' He could ...
... dawn as a deliverance . He took the revolution into his poet's world and he wrote The Twelve . He really was a prophet , of course . Both in his visions and in that shattering music he heard in the sound of Russian speech . - ' He could ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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