Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 153
... deck of an ocean liner or of a fishing barge . From the low deck of a barge you not only see it but you smell the tang of sea - water as the boat passes submerged rocks . For an instant they are laid bare by a wave and reveal their ...
... deck of an ocean liner or of a fishing barge . From the low deck of a barge you not only see it but you smell the tang of sea - water as the boat passes submerged rocks . For an instant they are laid bare by a wave and reveal their ...
Page 188
... deck , the Dimitry sailed . Only Izya Livshitz came to see me off . It was a fairly cold , still winter day . In place of yesterday's puddles , crusts of ice as thin as mica crackled on the breakwaters . Snow fluttered , so light that ...
... deck , the Dimitry sailed . Only Izya Livshitz came to see me off . It was a fairly cold , still winter day . In place of yesterday's puddles , crusts of ice as thin as mica crackled on the breakwaters . Snow fluttered , so light that ...
Page 193
... deck . The Commissar leaned hard on the deck - house door . It flew open and a rush of air flung us outside . Clutching at an ice - slick rope , I saw what in the dark cabin I had only imagined - a titanic , an unheard of storm . It ...
... deck . The Commissar leaned hard on the deck - house door . It flew open and a rush of air flung us outside . Clutching at an ice - slick rope , I saw what in the dark cabin I had only imagined - a titanic , an unheard of storm . It ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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