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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... remembering accurately the sequence of events , the temporal perspective . I have several times been surprised and dismayed to find that a letter or diary proves that what I remember as happening in , say , 1908 really happened in 1910 ...
... remembering accurately the sequence of events , the temporal perspective . I have several times been surprised and dismayed to find that a letter or diary proves that what I remember as happening in , say , 1908 really happened in 1910 ...
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... remember how I dealt with the rat . Here is another letter to Lytton which recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna : May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman came ...
... remember how I dealt with the rat . Here is another letter to Lytton which recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna : May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman came ...
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... remember anything about leaving Jaffna or arriving in Kandy or the journey , which must have taken a whole day , except two or three hours in the middle of it , and those two or three hours I remember after 53 years as vividly as if ...
... remember anything about leaving Jaffna or arriving in Kandy or the journey , which must have taken a whole day , except two or three hours in the middle of it , and those two or three hours I remember after 53 years as vividly as if ...
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