Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 70
... 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 lost the manuscript . Now , in Odessa , I was working on the 70 Years of Hope.
... 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 lost the manuscript . Now , in Odessa , I was working on the 70 Years of Hope.
Page 172
... started their war over a tulip seed . At best , they must have started it over a bulb . Ever since , I have kept firmly to the unwritten law of fairytales and fiction - that every fairystory , even the most unlikely , must have some ...
... started their war over a tulip seed . At best , they must have started it over a bulb . Ever since , I have kept firmly to the unwritten law of fairytales and fiction - that every fairystory , even the most unlikely , must have some ...
Page 199
... started by the ' riff - raff ' – six sailors in enormously wide bell - bottoms - and a section of the speculators who joined them . ' Why are we stuck here all this time ? ' the riff - raff shouted . It was explained to them that the ...
... started by the ' riff - raff ' – six sailors in enormously wide bell - bottoms - and a section of the speculators who joined them . ' Why are we stuck here all this time ? ' the riff - raff shouted . It was explained to them that the ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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