Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 78
... story about him , I don't want to repeat myself . I'll try to describe him as fully as I did in the story , but from another angle . His most striking characteristics were his profound reticence , and his amused and friendly expression ...
... story about him , I don't want to repeat myself . I'll try to describe him as fully as I did in the story , but from another angle . His most striking characteristics were his profound reticence , and his amused and friendly expression ...
Page 118
Konstantin Paustovsky. 14 I Promise you Maupassant The Seaman printed a short story called " The King ' . It was signed I. Babel , 20 It was the story of an Odessa bandit chief , Benzion ( ' Benny ' ) the Scream , who married off his ...
Konstantin Paustovsky. 14 I Promise you Maupassant The Seaman printed a short story called " The King ' . It was signed I. Babel , 20 It was the story of an Odessa bandit chief , Benzion ( ' Benny ' ) the Scream , who married off his ...
Page 140
... stories were almost like telegrams ! Who packed everything into the smallest possible space . For whom a story of ten pages was much too long and surely padded ! A hundred pages of his concentrated prose ? No , it couldn't be ! I looked ...
... stories were almost like telegrams ! Who packed everything into the smallest possible space . For whom a story of ten pages was much too long and surely padded ! A hundred pages of his concentrated prose ? No , it couldn't be ! I looked ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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