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My past and thoughts, vol. 5 (of 6)

Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870; Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 [Translator]· 3 chapters· 102,889 words

This fragment follows upon the description of the ‘Mountain Heights of the Exile World’—from their eternally red crags down to their lowest bogs and ‘sulphur mines.’[1] I beg the reader not to forget that in this chapter we are plunging with him below the level of the sea and...

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1. VOLUME V

2. CHAPTER VI:—Ordinary Misfortunes and Political

This fragment follows upon the description of the ‘Mountain Heights of the Exile World’—from their eternally red crags down to their lowest bogs and ‘sulphur mines.’[1] I beg th...

3. Chapter 6

... From the _sulphurous gang_, as the Germans themselves called the Marxists, it is an easy and natural transition to the muddy slime, to the lowest dregs which drift from cont...