Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 48
... light that made it look like a morgue . I watched , hypnotised , wondering why the light was so dim . Obviously the feeble current was dragging itself along rusty wires , struggling with ancient connections and dusty knots of insulating ...
... light that made it look like a morgue . I watched , hypnotised , wondering why the light was so dim . Obviously the feeble current was dragging itself along rusty wires , struggling with ancient connections and dusty knots of insulating ...
Page 49
Konstantin Paustovsky. It struck me that there was something sinister about the light suddenly coming on . It was an omen , a warning . I was not alone in this . Odessa secretly panicked . The light meant trouble . What kind of trouble ...
Konstantin Paustovsky. It struck me that there was something sinister about the light suddenly coming on . It was an omen , a warning . I was not alone in this . Odessa secretly panicked . The light meant trouble . What kind of trouble ...
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... light on the entire coast . The whole of the Crimea lay deserted , empty , swept by winter winds , numbed by the ... lights ; on the other hand there were bandits ; you risked being stopped at the very first crossroads and stripped naked ...
... light on the entire coast . The whole of the Crimea lay deserted , empty , swept by winter winds , numbed by the ... lights ; on the other hand there were bandits ; you risked being stopped at the very first crossroads and stripped naked ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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