Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 70
... seen anything more beautiful than glycerine soap bubbles . Wherever I went I took with me The Romantics , a novel I had started writing long ago , in Taganrog . I wrote at such long inter- vals that it was a wonder to me that I hadn't ...
... seen anything more beautiful than glycerine soap bubbles . Wherever I went I took with me The Romantics , a novel I had started writing long ago , in Taganrog . I wrote at such long inter- vals that it was a wonder to me that I hadn't ...
Page 96
... seen . He had seen the text of Lenin's speech on the New Economic Policy . 16 Lenin had recently made it in Moscow . It had been set up as a pamphlet but not yet printed . The text was preceded by a note on the front page to the effect ...
... seen . He had seen the text of Lenin's speech on the New Economic Policy . 16 Lenin had recently made it in Moscow . It had been set up as a pamphlet but not yet printed . The text was preceded by a note on the front page to the effect ...
Page 119
... seen anyone look less like an author . Stooping , almost neckless because of his hereditary asthma , with a duck's bill of a nose , a creased forehead and an oily glint in his little eyes , he was anything but fascinating . At first ...
... seen anyone look less like an author . Stooping , almost neckless because of his hereditary asthma , with a duck's bill of a nose , a creased forehead and an oily glint in his little eyes , he was anything but fascinating . At first ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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