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 195
... told me that it was in a terrible state as there were bodies of dead buffaloes in and around it . It was the dry season and there would be no water for miles round except in this water hole . The Arachchi asked me to come and have a ...
... told me that it was in a terrible state as there were bodies of dead buffaloes in and around it . It was the dry season and there would be no water for miles round except in this water hole . The Arachchi asked me to come and have a ...
Page 234
... told - very confidentially - that in a latrine that I was having built in the town the work was being done in a most dishonest way with the connivance of the Govern- ment officer responsible . What should have been solid cement ...
... told - very confidentially - that in a latrine that I was having built in the town the work was being done in a most dishonest way with the connivance of the Govern- ment officer responsible . What should have been solid cement ...
Page 240
... told that as many as 2,400 women work off and on- a number which seemed to me quite incredible . When I went to see the diving , the women told me that they never got malaria . One day when I was passing near the village , a large ...
... told that as many as 2,400 women work off and on- a number which seemed to me quite incredible . When I went to see the diving , the women told me that they never got malaria . One day when I was passing near the village , a large ...
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