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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... animals . They give me the greatest pleasure both emotionally and intellect- ually . I get deep affection for cats and dogs , and indeed for almost every kind of animal which I have kept . But I also derive very great pleasure from ...
... animals . They give me the greatest pleasure both emotionally and intellect- ually . I get deep affection for cats and dogs , and indeed for almost every kind of animal which I have kept . But I also derive very great pleasure from ...
Page 101
... animals , which , I know , will irritate many of my readers , I want to describe a curious incident which I saw take place in the bungalow by the sea . I have often heard of people who have a magnetic power over animals , but this is ...
... animals , which , I know , will irritate many of my readers , I want to describe a curious incident which I saw take place in the bungalow by the sea . I have often heard of people who have a magnetic power over animals , but this is ...
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... animals , and to follow him into a dark cave is sheer madness , as Engelbrecht knew even better than I. At first one ... animal's mate - leapt out of the shadows and disappeared into the back of the cave . ( He got out through a hole at ...
... animals , and to follow him into a dark cave is sheer madness , as Engelbrecht knew even better than I. At first one ... animal's mate - leapt out of the shadows and disappeared into the back of the cave . ( He got out through a hole at ...
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