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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... lived and all the lives to be Are full of trees and changing leaves , Luriana , Lurilee . One of the charms of the island is its infinite variety . In the north , east , and south - east you get the flat , dry , hot low country with a ...
... lived and all the lives to be Are full of trees and changing leaves , Luriana , Lurilee . One of the charms of the island is its infinite variety . In the north , east , and south - east you get the flat , dry , hot low country with a ...
Page 43
... lived since , and indeed before , 1813 , was an inveterate matchmaker . In this character she once un- successfully tried her hand upon me , the other victim of her artless and embarrassing manoeuvres being a young woman friend of hers ...
... lived since , and indeed before , 1813 , was an inveterate matchmaker . In this character she once un- successfully tried her hand upon me , the other victim of her artless and embarrassing manoeuvres being a young woman friend of hers ...
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... lived a life bounded on the one side by Somerset House or St. Martin's - le - Grand , and on the other by a devoted mother and a devoted old servant in Clapham or Kew . In Ceylon he lived the life of a minnow in a shoal of pike . The ...
... lived a life bounded on the one side by Somerset House or St. Martin's - le - Grand , and on the other by a devoted mother and a devoted old servant in Clapham or Kew . In Ceylon he lived the life of a minnow in a shoal of pike . The ...
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