Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart and my bones , its austere beauty , its im- mobility and unchangeableness except for minute modu- lations ...
... kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart and my bones , its austere beauty , its im- mobility and unchangeableness except for minute modu- lations ...
Page 116
... kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never grown up into the world of reality and 1906 . He had an instinctive grasp of a " situation " and of the person with whom he was " dealing " . I got on well with him because I understood ...
... kind of aristocrat and a schoolboy who had never grown up into the world of reality and 1906 . He had an instinctive grasp of a " situation " and of the person with whom he was " dealing " . I got on well with him because I understood ...
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... kind of life which I had to lead and the kind of work that an " imperialist " administrator per- formed in a British Crown Colony fifty years ago . The first example concerned an operation which was not routine or part of the everyday ...
... kind of life which I had to lead and the kind of work that an " imperialist " administrator per- formed in a British Crown Colony fifty years ago . The first example concerned an operation which was not routine or part of the everyday ...
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