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Page 14
Looking back on those first months of the revolution, it is easy to see today how
charged they were with a sense of unavoidable, impending change. The old
order had been destroyed. But hardly anyone in his heart of hearts believed that
the ...
Looking back on those first months of the revolution, it is easy to see today how
charged they were with a sense of unavoidable, impending change. The old
order had been destroyed. But hardly anyone in his heart of hearts believed that
the ...
Page 38
The French Revolution, the Decembrist Rising, the Paris Commune and the
Revolution of 1905 cast their distant glow on current events, making them still
more vivid and exciting. Despite its inner contradictions, even the poetry of
Verhaeren ...
The French Revolution, the Decembrist Rising, the Paris Commune and the
Revolution of 1905 cast their distant glow on current events, making them still
more vivid and exciting. Despite its inner contradictions, even the poetry of
Verhaeren ...
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It may seem strange that at a time of revolution, of the breakdown of all familiar
ways and notions, anyone should have been interested in anything so remote
from his daily revolutionary life as the East or as poetry. But the human mind is
more ...
It may seem strange that at a time of revolution, of the breakdown of all familiar
ways and notions, anyone should have been interested in anything so remote
from his daily revolutionary life as the East or as poetry. But the human mind is
more ...
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Contents
Whirlpool pagej 2 Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 56 |
4 The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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