Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 40
... watched the impudent young man's canary- coloured shoes with deep envy and admiring looks and sighs . The young man was wondering how to jump the queue without causing a fuss and a row . He saw the old gentleman with the book , and ...
... watched the impudent young man's canary- coloured shoes with deep envy and admiring looks and sighs . The young man was wondering how to jump the queue without causing a fuss and a row . He saw the old gentleman with the book , and ...
Page 48
... watched , hypnotised , wondering why the light was so dim . Obviously the feeble current was dragging itself along rusty wires , struggling with ancient connections and dusty knots of insulating tape and getting stuck in the meters ...
... watched , hypnotised , wondering why the light was so dim . Obviously the feeble current was dragging itself along rusty wires , struggling with ancient connections and dusty knots of insulating tape and getting stuck in the meters ...
Page 214
... watched Sebastopol for a long time from the stern of the Pestel , until at last we rounded the Khersones lighthouse and the lilac wall of the Crimean mountains rose on our port side . Cold and excitement had kept me awake all night , so ...
... watched Sebastopol for a long time from the stern of the Pestel , until at last we rounded the Khersones lighthouse and the lilac wall of the Crimean mountains rose on our port side . Cold and excitement had kept me awake all night , so ...
Contents
Forerunners of Ostap Bender page | 7 |
Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
Copyright | |
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