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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Page 78
... sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges . It seemed to be absolutely uninhabited except for one enormous temple standing quite solitary in this wilderness of sand ...
... sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges . It seemed to be absolutely uninhabited except for one enormous temple standing quite solitary in this wilderness of sand ...
Page 88
... sand , I felt that , though my body was unwashed and unshaved , my mind had been curiously cleaned and purified . Naturally I was instantly and appropriately recalled to reality . The G.A.'s bungalow had been built on a small hillock of ...
... sand , I felt that , though my body was unwashed and unshaved , my mind had been curiously cleaned and purified . Naturally I was instantly and appropriately recalled to reality . The G.A.'s bungalow had been built on a small hillock of ...
Page 176
... sand , which was the tip of the promontory . To the right was an absolutely straight stretch of about two miles of the sea shore , dazzling white sand . All the year round day and night , if you looked down that long two- mile line of ...
... sand , which was the tip of the promontory . To the right was an absolutely straight stretch of about two miles of the sea shore , dazzling white sand . All the year round day and night , if you looked down that long two- mile line of ...
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