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
... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon ! I felt keenly the complete loss of the life which I had lived at Cambridge , its friends and friendship . In every conceivable way my life in Jaffna was the exact opposite ...
... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon ! I felt keenly the complete loss of the life which I had lived at Cambridge , its friends and friendship . In every conceivable way my life in Jaffna was the exact opposite ...
Page 172
... Lytton and I wrote to each other continually . But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each ...
... Lytton and I wrote to each other continually . But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each ...
Page 178
... Lytton I said that I had exalted my work to a mania . This was quite true . After three years in Ceylon I had put out of my mind and out of my life , almost deliberately , everything which until I left England I had considered most ...
... Lytton I said that I had exalted my work to a mania . This was quite true . After three years in Ceylon I had put out of my mind and out of my life , almost deliberately , everything which until I left England I had considered most ...
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