Gooseberries and other stories (Penguin Little Black Classics, #34)
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..."
'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-cent…
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