Recunosc, nu agreez petrecerile. Puțini organizatori casnici de petreceri au parchet insensibil pe podea, așa că sufăr de angoasa descălțatului la intrare. Nu că mi-ar puți prea tare picioarele, e oarecum suportabil atâta vreme cât nu-i vine cuiva ideea să-mi sugă vreun degețel. Dar e iritant să-...
I cannot remember exact details about this book (even though I read it not too long ago) but I know that I enjoyed it. I chose it out of a lengthy list of books to write a term paper over because my professor kept talking about what a funny book it was. I am so glad that I chose it because a) it ...
At first glance Dr Angus Petworth (also called Pitwit, Pervert, and Petwurt by his Soviet-bloc hosts) might appear stuffy; his is a pale-faced, middle-aged British professor of linguistics. But as soon as he sets out on a lecture tour behind the Iron Curtain and becomes embroiled in a confrontati...
All day he was to be seen, for once, in the centre of an admiring host; by four o’clock he was as dizzy as a sick bee on a surfeit of praise, and his sense of participation in the events about him was noticeably diminished. One of these events was that already a crowd some seventy strong, and inc...
They’ve spent unending days clattering over broken, sledge-battered roads by the Baltic that seem to lead only to the polar ice-cap of the world. The speed of travel has hastened each single day. The imperial wedding is fast approaching (Archduke Paul will take Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmst...