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 110
... Kandy to Hambantota , I had to go up country on official business . In the late afternoon I got into the train at Colombo for Kandy and , seeing the head clerk of the Kandy kachcheri on the platform , I asked him to come in my carriage ...
... Kandy to Hambantota , I had to go up country on official business . In the late afternoon I got into the train at Colombo for Kandy and , seeing the head clerk of the Kandy kachcheri on the platform , I asked him to come in my carriage ...
Page 133
... Kandy , I found that I had indeed entered into an entirely new world . I am glad that I spent a year of my life at the age of 27 in Kandy , for life there was unlike any that I have ever known elsewhere , but I did not like it in the ...
... Kandy , I found that I had indeed entered into an entirely new world . I am glad that I spent a year of my life at the age of 27 in Kandy , for life there was unlike any that I have ever known elsewhere , but I did not like it in the ...
Page 255
... Kandy , 132–171 ; journey to Kandy , 132 ; soc- iety in Kandy , 133 ; work in Kandy , 134 ; Kandy tennis and Kandy Club , 135-137 ; and the Empress Eugénie , 138-145 ; plays squash rackets and hockey , 145-147 ; dines with Middletons ...
... Kandy , 132–171 ; journey to Kandy , 132 ; soc- iety in Kandy , 133 ; work in Kandy , 134 ; Kandy tennis and Kandy Club , 135-137 ; and the Empress Eugénie , 138-145 ; plays squash rackets and hockey , 145-147 ; dines with Middletons ...
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