Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 76
... soon she was calmly telling me , as she sniffed her smelling salts , ' Wish she'd stop her barrel organ , that old ... soon afterwards while still a young man . Lafargue wrote in his elegant French that Corbière's poetry was ' full of ...
... soon she was calmly telling me , as she sniffed her smelling salts , ' Wish she'd stop her barrel organ , that old ... soon afterwards while still a young man . Lafargue wrote in his elegant French that Corbière's poetry was ' full of ...
Page 119
... soon changed the subject to Kipling , saying that everyone ought to write his kind of steely prose , and to visualise in the clearest detail what he was about to write . A story should be as accurate as a military report or a bank ...
... soon changed the subject to Kipling , saying that everyone ought to write his kind of steely prose , and to visualise in the clearest detail what he was about to write . A story should be as accurate as a military report or a bank ...
Page 213
... soon , I hoped . That I would see it again I felt sure . And indeed I was to come again often , and stay long , and become as attached to Sebastopol as to a second home . I am bound to it by many memories , of much grief and much ...
... soon , I hoped . That I would see it again I felt sure . And indeed I was to come again often , and stay long , and become as attached to Sebastopol as to a second home . I am bound to it by many memories , of much grief and much ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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