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 91
... given me a new lease of life and , as I often said at the time , a new inside . I know I felt extraordinarily well and completely untirable . But I also experienced in the sands of Marich- chukaddi one of those sudden , instantaneous ...
... given me a new lease of life and , as I often said at the time , a new inside . I know I felt extraordinarily well and completely untirable . But I also experienced in the sands of Marich- chukaddi one of those sudden , instantaneous ...
Page 118
... given Twilight to Mrs. Price and they were devotedly inseparable until he was killed and eaten by a leopard in the Mannar jungle before their eyes . He was a white whippet - like dog of dubious parentage on the father's side , his ...
... given Twilight to Mrs. Price and they were devotedly inseparable until he was killed and eaten by a leopard in the Mannar jungle before their eyes . He was a white whippet - like dog of dubious parentage on the father's side , his ...
Page 186
... given at the lewaya . I tried another cart of 18 bags and found an excess of 15 lb. I then found that in practically every case in which I had not been present , the weight of a cartload , according to the checkers at the stores , had ...
... given at the lewaya . I tried another cart of 18 bags and found an excess of 15 lb. I then found that in practically every case in which I had not been present , the weight of a cartload , according to the checkers at the stores , had ...
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