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The Secret City
Sir Hugh Walpole
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We gave them, and in no half measure. We shouted. Boris Grogoff cried,
"More cheers!"
It was then that I saw Markovitch's face that had been puckered with pleasure like the face of a delighted child suddenly stiffen, his hand moved forward, then dropped. I turned and found, standing in the doorway, quietly watching us, Alexei Petrovitch Semyonov.
XIIII stared at him. I could not take my eyes away. I instantly forgot every one else, the room, the tree, the lights…. With a force, with a poignancy and pathos and brutality that were more cruel than I could have believed possible that other world came back to me. Ah! I could see now that all these months I had been running away from this very thing, see. . . Read More
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"One's private life is always with one..... it is a secret city in which one must always live, and whose gates one will never pass through, whatever may be going on in the world outside."
The characters in this novel get their lives all tangled up with the Russian Revolution, which becomes almost inc
Een blijkbaar wat uit het oog verloren schrijver herontdekt.
Een roman over enkele Engelsmannen en hun band met de Russische bevolking in het Petrograd van rond de revolutie in 2017. Soms wat expliciet en uitgesponnen, maar geschreven met veel eerlijkheid, aandacht en liefde voor de Russische ziel, u
Published one hundred years ago, this is the sequel to "The Dark Forest".
Perhaps Walpole's best book, it is set in the Russia of the Revolution period.
A sequel that is even better than its predecessor, the author uses the time he spent in the Russia of this period to spin a memorable tale.
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I'd never read any Hugh Walpole and bought this book on a whim because the scenario is St. Petersburg at the time the Revolution begins and, well, because I liked the cover.
I enjoyed the book very much. But I was uncertain exactly what I was reading. There are, in a way, two novels going on side-by-