The Transposed Heads: A Legend of IndiaAn ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together. |
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Certainly in the inclination of each for the other some slight humour inhered;
Nanda privately made fun of Shridaman's fair fatness, his thin nose and
punctilious speech. Shridaman, on the other hand, smiled at Nanda's goat-nose
and rustic ...
Certainly in the inclination of each for the other some slight humour inhered;
Nanda privately made fun of Shridaman's fair fatness, his thin nose and
punctilious speech. Shridaman, on the other hand, smiled at Nanda's goat-nose
and rustic ...
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Otherwise all I can do — and it is certainly high time — is to go after them and see
what in the world they are up to. No wonder I feel somewhat alarmed, being with
child as I am, at their strange behaviour, for fear of what is behind it. But the ...
Otherwise all I can do — and it is certainly high time — is to go after them and see
what in the world they are up to. No wonder I feel somewhat alarmed, being with
child as I am, at their strange behaviour, for fear of what is behind it. But the ...
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“You three are certainly the right people for me! I was prepared of course for a
tale full of life's headiest fumes. But this of yours, you could fairly cut it with a knife.
It is easier for me to hold out between my four firebrands in the hottest summer ...
“You three are certainly the right people for me! I was prepared of course for a
tale full of life's headiest fumes. But this of yours, you could fairly cut it with a knife.
It is easier for me to hold out between my four firebrands in the hottest summer ...
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India |
| Autor | Thomas Mann |
| Übersetzt von | Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Arthur George Rock |
| Verlag | A. A. Knopf, 1941 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Jan. 2007 |
| Länge | 194 Seiten |
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