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Автор: Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
Год: 2009
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 324
ISBN: 9781438513171
Elizabeth von Armin (1866 u 1941) was born in Australia and grew up in England. After marrying a German count and moving to his estate she began writing childrenZs books. From the first paragraph Elizabeth Von Amim has her readers embracing the two little girls starting out on the adventure of their lives. oTheir names were really Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas; but they decided, as they sat huddled together in a corner of the second-class deck of the American liner St. Luke, and watched the dirty water of the Mersey slipping past and the Liverpool landing-stage disappearing into mist, and felt that it was comfortless and cold, and knew they hadn't got a father or a mother, and remembered that they were aliens, and realized that in front of them lay a great deal of gray, uneasy, dreadfully wet sea, endless stretches of it, days and days of it, with waves on top of it to make them sick and submarines beneath it to kill them if they could, and knew that they hadn't the remotest idea,...
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