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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... looked down upon the esplanade you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop ; in this there lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable , for many people came to worship him . They sacrificed ...
... looked down upon the esplanade you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop ; in this there lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable , for many people came to worship him . They sacrificed ...
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... looked like a ghost praying . I can't write about anything else ; here are the only realities , and the curious feelings they excite , the only pleasant feelings . Perhaps they are not the only ones ; when I read your letters first ...
... looked like a ghost praying . I can't write about anything else ; here are the only realities , and the curious feelings they excite , the only pleasant feelings . Perhaps they are not the only ones ; when I read your letters first ...
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... looked as if she might at any moment burst into tears . I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some excuse and ...
... looked as if she might at any moment burst into tears . I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some excuse and ...
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