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Page 26
Sitting in the lodge, we talked over the events of the past few days and were
amazed by our own stupidity. The fighting had taken us all by surprise. Yet we
knew about the rising in Petrograd, the storming of the Winter Palace, the
gunshot from ...
Sitting in the lodge, we talked over the events of the past few days and were
amazed by our own stupidity. The fighting had taken us all by surprise. Yet we
knew about the rising in Petrograd, the storming of the Winter Palace, the
gunshot from ...
Page 40
'Of course, a lady can do what she likes — she can sit at her spider-legged desk
and play politics and shed tears over her own articles about the Russian peasant.
But just one word from a real peasant and you'd all have fits. Goodbye. I'll come ...
'Of course, a lady can do what she likes — she can sit at her spider-legged desk
and play politics and shed tears over her own articles about the Russian peasant.
But just one word from a real peasant and you'd all have fits. Goodbye. I'll come ...
Page 62
the recruit sat on the box, young and handsome in a sleeveless velvet vest,
hands straining at the wide reins, while sitting sideways inside the carriage was a
remarkably attractive peasant girl. 'Will you strike another match?' I asked him.
the recruit sat on the box, young and handsome in a sleeveless velvet vest,
hands straining at the wide reins, while sitting sideways inside the carriage was a
remarkably attractive peasant girl. 'Will you strike another match?' I asked him.
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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