Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 112
... thousand . I told him to go to hell . Then a young man , barefoot and in an old Cossack cap , pushed a ten thousand note into my hand and tried to jerk the roll from under my arm , saying : ' Go on , take it and get back to your girl ...
... thousand . I told him to go to hell . Then a young man , barefoot and in an old Cossack cap , pushed a ten thousand note into my hand and tried to jerk the roll from under my arm , saying : ' Go on , take it and get back to your girl ...
Page 117
... thousand roubles . Only twenty years later did the truth come out in Moscow , and Reginin , shaking with his usual silent laughter , gave me the two hundred thousand back , in the form of two ten - rouble notes of the 1939 issue . 14 I ...
... thousand roubles . Only twenty years later did the truth come out in Moscow , and Reginin , shaking with his usual silent laughter , gave me the two hundred thousand back , in the form of two ten - rouble notes of the 1939 issue . 14 I ...
Page 149
... thousand harps . But most people think it matters that he had bentwood chairs in his dining - room , and that he was " Zemhussar " 26 in the World War . They like that . Any smelly little flame of ignorant gossip and prejudice will ...
... thousand harps . But most people think it matters that he had bentwood chairs in his dining - room , and that he was " Zemhussar " 26 in the World War . They like that . Any smelly little flame of ignorant gossip and prejudice will ...
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Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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