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The red laugh: fragments of a discovered manuscript

Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919; Linden, A. (Alexandra) [Translator]· 2 chapters· 23,510 words

I felt it for the first time as we were marching along the road--marching incessantly for ten hours without stopping, never diminishing our step, never waiting to pick up those that had fallen, but leaving them to the enemy, that was moving behind us in a compact mass only thr...

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1. PART I

I felt it for the first time as we were marching along the road--marching incessantly for ten hours without stopping, never diminishing our step, never waiting to pick up those...

2. PART II

... Happily he died last week on Friday. I say "happily," and repeat that my brother's death was a great blessing to him. A cripple with no legs, palsied, with a smitten soul, h...