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 84
... immense empty hotel surrounded by an interminable series of tea - covered hills , and now I have practically settled down for two weeks here . You can't understand my mood — and I don't think I can give its tone to you at all - without ...
... immense empty hotel surrounded by an interminable series of tea - covered hills , and now I have practically settled down for two weeks here . You can't understand my mood — and I don't think I can give its tone to you at all - without ...
Page 87
... immense canopy of stars seemingly just above my head at night . We had to sail first south - west round Mannar and through the little islands of Adam's Bridge and then south to the Fishery . There is — or was — to me always something ...
... immense canopy of stars seemingly just above my head at night . We had to sail first south - west round Mannar and through the little islands of Adam's Bridge and then south to the Fishery . There is — or was — to me always something ...
Page 197
... immense sea of trees and changing leaves , stretching away below one , beneath the light of the moon , into infinity and eternity . The wind had dropped ; the moon was so bright that I could have read small print in its light . After ...
... immense sea of trees and changing leaves , stretching away below one , beneath the light of the moon , into infinity and eternity . The wind had dropped ; the moon was so bright that I could have read small print in its light . After ...
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