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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Page 72
... seemed to tremble on the verge - I don't think she ever actually fell over the verge of vulgarity . As the Duttons and I talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think ...
... seemed to tremble on the verge - I don't think she ever actually fell over the verge of vulgarity . As the Duttons and I talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think ...
Page 83
... seemed to me infinitely worse than those of the illness . Typhoid seemed to have drained all strength out of both body and brain . Someone - I forget who— took me for a few days into his bungalow down on the shore of the Jaffna lagoon ...
... seemed to me infinitely worse than those of the illness . Typhoid seemed to have drained all strength out of both body and brain . Someone - I forget who— took me for a few days into his bungalow down on the shore of the Jaffna lagoon ...
Page 196
... seemed to be an intricate dance . I have twice in my life seen March hares in the Sussex water - meadows perform- ing their extraordinary dances . The jackal seemed to be doing the same thing . Leaping into the air , almost turn- ing ...
... seemed to be an intricate dance . I have twice in my life seen March hares in the Sussex water - meadows perform- ing their extraordinary dances . The jackal seemed to be doing the same thing . Leaping into the air , almost turn- ing ...
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