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Page 109
Life in Kiev at that time had something of the glitter of a banquet in a plague -
stricken city . Many restaurants and coffeehouses had cropped up and , though
none had food for more than thirty clients , the general effect was one of spurious
...
Life in Kiev at that time had something of the glitter of a banquet in a plague -
stricken city . Many restaurants and coffeehouses had cropped up and , though
none had food for more than thirty clients , the general effect was one of spurious
...
Page 140
I felt like liquidating the whole lot - from Presidents Pointcaré and Wilson down to
Makhno and the notorious Ataman Zelyony who had set up his H . Q . in the
village of Tripolye near Kiev . I now wish I hadn ' t destroyed my notes . They were
a ...
I felt like liquidating the whole lot - from Presidents Pointcaré and Wilson down to
Makhno and the notorious Ataman Zelyony who had set up his H . Q . in the
village of Tripolye near Kiev . I now wish I hadn ' t destroyed my notes . They were
a ...
Page 182
Their appearance in Kiev seemed a miracle . But , if so , it was a very tangible
miracle — bullets were again raining fast and thick on our wretched house . It
turned out later that some of the Soviet regiments , driven from the south at the
very ...
Their appearance in Kiev seemed a miracle . But , if so , it was a very tangible
miracle — bullets were again raining fast and thick on our wretched house . It
turned out later that some of the Soviet regiments , driven from the south at the
very ...
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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