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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... kind of game . During the day we played the usual deck games , chess , draughts , and even noughts and crosses , and very late at night when the two candles in the smoking - room began to gutter , he would say to me sometimes : " And ...
... kind of game . During the day we played the usual deck games , chess , draughts , and even noughts and crosses , and very late at night when the two candles in the smoking - room began to gutter , he would say to me sometimes : " And ...
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... kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart and my bones , its austere beauty , its im- mobility and unchangeableness except for minute modu- lations ...
... kind of Asiatic low country . But I lived in it for many years , indeed for most of my time in Ceylon , and it got into my heart and my bones , its austere beauty , its im- mobility and unchangeableness except for minute modu- lations ...
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... kind of small durbar of chief headmen , for he was still a kind of underground power in the peninsula . He was a formidable old man though quite friendly to me . I never had the courage to ask him whether it was true that he had been ...
... kind of small durbar of chief headmen , for he was still a kind of underground power in the peninsula . He was a formidable old man though quite friendly to me . I never had the courage to ask him whether it was true that he had been ...
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