The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 80
... vast heaps of ants ' eggs . Keeping them , said Bagritsky , required a great deal of skill and a constant temperature . Otherwise , one fine day all these eggs might turn into angry red ants . They would run all over the house and take ...
... vast heaps of ants ' eggs . Keeping them , said Bagritsky , required a great deal of skill and a constant temperature . Otherwise , one fine day all these eggs might turn into angry red ants . They would run all over the house and take ...
Page 95
... vast and remarkable work , full of poetic thoughts and short , unexpected observa- tions , of such depth that two or three lines out of Prishvin's diaries would , if expanded , suffice to make a whole book in the hands of another author ...
... vast and remarkable work , full of poetic thoughts and short , unexpected observa- tions , of such depth that two or three lines out of Prishvin's diaries would , if expanded , suffice to make a whole book in the hands of another author ...
Page 114
... vast screw - jack . The wall had no cracks and was not even pock - marked by rain - it was an absolutely unblemished wall , as if only just created , though many thousands of years had undoubtedly passed since it had first been formed ...
... vast screw - jack . The wall had no cracks and was not even pock - marked by rain - it was an absolutely unblemished wall , as if only just created , though many thousands of years had undoubtedly passed since it had first been formed ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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