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 64
... called upon him to ask him to take me in . His bungalow appalled me . It was in a side street , smothered in trees , hot , stuffy , full of mosquitoes and geckos - not a breath of air ever found its way in . I found him sitting at a ...
... called upon him to ask him to take me in . His bungalow appalled me . It was in a side street , smothered in trees , hot , stuffy , full of mosquitoes and geckos - not a breath of air ever found its way in . I found him sitting at a ...
Page 143
... called Nugawela , and the Government Agent . In fact both the G.A. and the Diwa Nilame , as he was usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. ...
... called Nugawela , and the Government Agent . In fact both the G.A. and the Diwa Nilame , as he was usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. ...
Page 221
... called upon my aunt , told her about his meeting with me , and was enthusiastically grateful for all that I had done for him . I do not know how the Baron came to shoot so badly at Tissa and so well at Palatupana . But I know that it ...
... called upon my aunt , told her about his meeting with me , and was enthusiastically grateful for all that I had done for him . I do not know how the Baron came to shoot so badly at Tissa and so well at Palatupana . But I know that it ...
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