Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 35
... night . This had become my favourite hobby . The night gradually filled with silence . I listened to its approach , and the occasional faint sound of distant gunfire . It came from the French gunboat La Scarpe which regularly shelled ...
... night . This had become my favourite hobby . The night gradually filled with silence . I listened to its approach , and the occasional faint sound of distant gunfire . It came from the French gunboat La Scarpe which regularly shelled ...
Page 125
... night . He felt they hinted at some dangerous secret . The nights were long in Moldavanka . A bleary light from a distant street - lamp fell on the peeling wallpaper . The walls smelt of acetic acid . At rare intervals the sound of ...
... night . He felt they hinted at some dangerous secret . The nights were long in Moldavanka . A bleary light from a distant street - lamp fell on the peeling wallpaper . The walls smelt of acetic acid . At rare intervals the sound of ...
Page 217
... night concealed from me were ignorant of the first law of survival on such a night - perfect silence . So they often gave themselves away and I had time to avoid them . It occurred to me that man is a much more noisy animal than we ...
... night concealed from me were ignorant of the first law of survival on such a night - perfect silence . So they often gave themselves away and I had time to avoid them . It occurred to me that man is a much more noisy animal than we ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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