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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... morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for which I was bound , was the capital and administrative centre of the Northern Pro- vince . It stood upon a peninsula — the Jaffna peninsula— which is connected with the ...
... morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for which I was bound , was the capital and administrative centre of the Northern Pro- vince . It stood upon a peninsula — the Jaffna peninsula— which is connected with the ...
Page 190
... morning at Talawa a villager told me a curious story about buffaloes . I had several times during the out- break been told that buffaloes which got the disease would often break out madly and travel long distances to die in the place ...
... morning at Talawa a villager told me a curious story about buffaloes . I had several times during the out- break been told that buffaloes which got the disease would often break out madly and travel long distances to die in the place ...
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... morning . So I lay awake hour after hour tortured by the tortured howling of the child . In the morning I asked my boy ! what it all meant . He was very sorry , he said ; the people , a mother and father , had come from India with the ...
... morning . So I lay awake hour after hour tortured by the tortured howling of the child . In the morning I asked my boy ! what it all meant . He was very sorry , he said ; the people , a mother and father , had come from India with the ...
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