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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Nutzerbericht - fieldnotes - LibraryThingThis folkloric, Hindu-light treatment of desire, loyalty and identity lacks the craft, gravity and heft of other Thomas Mann novels. His few prose outbursts in description of beauty or deity seem ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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