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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... strange Asiatic country ; I did not realize this at the time , though I felt something in the atmosphere which to me was slightly strange and dis- concerting . It was this element in the social atmosphere or climate which gave the touch ...
... strange Asiatic country ; I did not realize this at the time , though I felt something in the atmosphere which to me was slightly strange and dis- concerting . It was this element in the social atmosphere or climate which gave the touch ...
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... strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later . This , as I have said , was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social routine was incredibly ...
... strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later . This , as I have said , was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social routine was incredibly ...
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... strange sight one day when I was out with the same Watcher in thick jungle . We heard quite near us the most extraordinary guttural roaring noise . I had never heard it before and I asked the Watcher what it was ; he said that he did ...
... strange sight one day when I was out with the same Watcher in thick jungle . We heard quite near us the most extraordinary guttural roaring noise . I had never heard it before and I asked the Watcher what it was ; he said that he did ...
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