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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... looked down upon the esplanade you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop ; in this there lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable , for many people came to worship him . They sacrificed ...
... looked down upon the esplanade you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop ; in this there lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable , for many people came to worship him . They sacrificed ...
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... looked as if she might at any moment burst into tears . I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some excuse and ...
... looked as if she might at any moment burst into tears . I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some excuse and ...
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... looked down that evening with Rachel . One's memory in connection with places is curiously erratic . There are two things about my house in Hamban- tota which I remember vividly . If you walked towards the sea across the compound , you ...
... looked down that evening with Rachel . One's memory in connection with places is curiously erratic . There are two things about my house in Hamban- tota which I remember vividly . If you walked towards the sea across the compound , you ...
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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