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Page 66
The whole life of the country had been shaken to its thousand- year-old roots.
The times were threatening, full of vague forebodings, expectations, ruthless
passions and conflicts. It was all the harder to see the point of this fruitless strife.
The whole life of the country had been shaken to its thousand- year-old roots.
The times were threatening, full of vague forebodings, expectations, ruthless
passions and conflicts. It was all the harder to see the point of this fruitless strife.
Page 136
I have described this incident in detail only because it was so in keeping with the
whole tenor of life under the Directorate. Everything seemed equally mean and
pointiess, like a badly- produced but occasionally tragic farce. One day, the
whole ...
I have described this incident in detail only because it was so in keeping with the
whole tenor of life under the Directorate. Everything seemed equally mean and
pointiess, like a badly- produced but occasionally tragic farce. One day, the
whole ...
Page 211
Personally, I thought the whole trouble had been due to his absurd way of
walking, but I didn't like to hurt his feelings by saying so. Yasha stumbled and
was so startled that, instead of cursing himself silently, he said in a loud, clear
voice: 'I'm ...
Personally, I thought the whole trouble had been due to his absurd way of
walking, but I didn't like to hurt his feelings by saying so. Yasha stumbled and
was so startled that, instead of cursing himself silently, he said in a loud, clear
voice: 'I'm ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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| 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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