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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... deal grander than we could have been at home in London or Edinburgh , Brighton or Oban . We were grand because we were a ruling caste in a strange Asiatic country ; I did not realize this at the time , though I felt something in the ...
... deal grander than we could have been at home in London or Edinburgh , Brighton or Oban . We were grand because we were a ruling caste in a strange Asiatic country ; I did not realize this at the time , though I felt something in the ...
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... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
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... deal of sea - water , exhausted and angry , he struggled ashore . I too was angry , especially when I heard that it was being widely said that I had behaved in a cowardly and ruthless way to Mr. Y. Nothing was ever said about Mr. X. I ...
... deal of sea - water , exhausted and angry , he struggled ashore . I too was angry , especially when I heard that it was being widely said that I had behaved in a cowardly and ruthless way to Mr. Y. Nothing was ever said about Mr. X. I ...
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1817 LIBRARIES afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service CHIGAN civil servant Colombo Court curious deal deer District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment MICHIGAN miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf