Tyrants destroyed and other storiesA collection of short stories about Russian émigrés in Germany and France after the Russian Revolution. |
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User Review - KirkusThirteen not-so-new stories from the audacious doyen of self-conscious artifice — twelve of them dated between 1924 and 1939 from Berlin, Paris, Mentone, and portraying the proud but slightly down at ... Read full review
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