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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... Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Ham- bantota in which I spent nearly six years of my Ceylon life . It is , as in so many other places , mainly a question of rain . In the hills and mountains ...
... Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Ham- bantota in which I spent nearly six years of my Ceylon life . It is , as in so many other places , mainly a question of rain . In the hills and mountains ...
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... Ceylon Govern- ment . A limited number of tickets were sent to the Government of India to issue to would - be Indian pil- grims and a certain number were reserved for people in Ceylon . I had 75 tickets and 300 applicants . I rode to ...
... Ceylon Govern- ment . A limited number of tickets were sent to the Government of India to issue to would - be Indian pil- grims and a certain number were reserved for people in Ceylon . I had 75 tickets and 300 applicants . I rode to ...
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... Ceylon from my mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and ... Ceylon . In October I began writing The Village in the Jungle and I realized that I was falling in love with Virginia ...
... Ceylon from my mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and ... Ceylon . In October I began writing The Village in the Jungle and I realized that I was falling in love with Virginia ...
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