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How the Steel was Tempered (Volumes 1 and 2) (PocketBook)

How the Steel was Tempered (Volumes 1 and 2) (PocketBook)
How the Steel was Tempered (Volumes 1 and 2) (PocketBook)
How the Steel was Tempered (Volumes 1 and 2) (PocketBook)
How the Steel was Tempered (Volumes 1 and 2) (PocketBook)
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Book Specifications

SKUID
:
AP-1585
ISBN
:
Published Year
:
1952
Author
:
N. Ostrovsky
Publisher
:
Foreign Languages Publishing House
Book Condition
:
Used Good
Condition Note
:
This is a used book, in good condition. Book pages are a yellowish color.
Book Binding Type
:
Hard Back
Language
:
English
No. of Pages
:
663
Dimensions
:
16.5 x 11.5 cm
Availability
:
Out Of Stock

Book Description

Midnight, the last tramear has long since dragged its battered earcase back to the depot. The moon lays its cold light on the window sill and spreads a luminous coverlet on the bed, leaving the rest of the room in semidarkness. At the table in the corner under a circle of light shed by the desk lamp sits Rita bent over a thick notebook, her diary. The sharp point of her pencil traces the words:

"Our dearest possession is life. It is given to us but once. And we must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live, that dying we might say: all my life all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world - the fight for the Liberation of Humankind."