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 62
... extremely ill with T.B. and the Government sent him to the dry climate of Jaffna as the best place in the island for him . He was married and had a child so I had to move out of the O.A.'s bungalow and find a home elsewhere . This was ...
... extremely ill with T.B. and the Government sent him to the dry climate of Jaffna as the best place in the island for him . He was married and had a child so I had to move out of the O.A.'s bungalow and find a home elsewhere . This was ...
Page 66
... extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the animals killed by me , saw the disgusting , semi - digested contents of their upper intes- tines , I was always reminded of the contents of Dutton's mind . As he not ...
... extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the animals killed by me , saw the disgusting , semi - digested contents of their upper intes- tines , I was always reminded of the contents of Dutton's mind . As he not ...
Page 137
... extremely well , I was highly praised by Turner and even Colquhoun , and got a grudging acknowledgment from my partner . In a week or two , of course , I had found my social feet in Kandyan society , bid diamonds when I had six of them ...
... extremely well , I was highly praised by Turner and even Colquhoun , and got a grudging acknowledgment from my partner . In a week or two , of course , I had found my social feet in Kandyan society , bid diamonds when I had six of them ...
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