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Page 11
Kerensky dashed about the country , trying to hold it together by his feverish
eloquence . What he lacked in strength of ideas and conviction , he tried to make
up for by pompous phrases , dramatic postures , grandiloquent but ill - timed ...
Kerensky dashed about the country , trying to hold it together by his feverish
eloquence . What he lacked in strength of ideas and conviction , he tried to make
up for by pompous phrases , dramatic postures , grandiloquent but ill - timed ...
Page 160
Standing among the great , he was trying to engage them in conversation , but
everyone snubbed him . The first speaker was Rakovsky . He was kind ,
considerate , reassuring . He told the men that a special commission appointed
by the ...
Standing among the great , he was trying to engage them in conversation , but
everyone snubbed him . The first speaker was Rakovsky . He was kind ,
considerate , reassuring . He told the men that a special commission appointed
by the ...
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The priests were trying to reach Poland by an extraordinarily roundabout route —
Istanbul , Salonika , Belgrade and Budapest . Needless to say , we could not
believe that even one of them would get there alive . One warm autumn morning
...
The priests were trying to reach Poland by an extraordinarily roundabout route —
Istanbul , Salonika , Belgrade and Budapest . Needless to say , we could not
believe that even one of them would get there alive . One warm autumn morning
...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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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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