The Story of a Life: In that dawnPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 16
... whole . I agreed with much , but some things shocked me - particularly what seemed to me its contempt for the culture of the past . Prevented from wholehearted acceptance by my idealistic up- bringing , I lived through the first two or ...
... whole . I agreed with much , but some things shocked me - particularly what seemed to me its contempt for the culture of the past . Prevented from wholehearted acceptance by my idealistic up- bringing , I lived through the first two or ...
Page 17
... Whole regiments parked round the stations , where the squares smoked like the ruins of a conquered city - but only with cigarette smoke — and grey flurries of sunflower seeds swirled in the wind . A red flag , tied to the martially ...
... Whole regiments parked round the stations , where the squares smoked like the ruins of a conquered city - but only with cigarette smoke — and grey flurries of sunflower seeds swirled in the wind . A red flag , tied to the martially ...
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... whole tenor of life under the Directorate . Everything seemed equally mean and pointless , like a badly- produced but occasionally tragic farce . One day , the whole of Kiev was plastered with enormous posters . They announced a meeting ...
... whole tenor of life under the Directorate . Everything seemed equally mean and pointless , like a badly- produced but occasionally tragic farce . One day , the whole of Kiev was plastered with enormous posters . They announced a meeting ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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