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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... road behind and the road in front of you were absolutely identical , a straight ribbon of white or grey between two walls of green . In my last three years in Ceylon , I lived a great deal in this kind of solid jungle country , for it ...
... road behind and the road in front of you were absolutely identical , a straight ribbon of white or grey between two walls of green . In my last three years in Ceylon , I lived a great deal in this kind of solid jungle country , for it ...
Page 80
... road . The people worked on the road and were paid in rice and every fortnight I sailed across to superintend the work and see that the people received their rice . It was a pretty strenuous operation . I sailed in an open Tamil boat ...
... road . The people worked on the road and were paid in rice and every fortnight I sailed across to superintend the work and see that the people received their rice . It was a pretty strenuous operation . I sailed in an open Tamil boat ...
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... road and I rode , cutting across country through scrub jungle . One evening , when I was doing this , I arrived at ... road and the tracks ran and that , if I walked due west , I would come out either dead on the bungalow or a little to ...
... road and I rode , cutting across country through scrub jungle . One evening , when I was doing this , I arrived at ... road and the tracks ran and that , if I walked due west , I would come out either dead on the bungalow or a little to ...
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