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 87
... streets : Main Street , Tank Street , New Street , New Moor Street . It was , I think , on February 15th that I sailed from Jaffna to Marichchukaddi in an open native boat . It took me a day and a half to reach Marichchukaddi . I lay on ...
... streets : Main Street , Tank Street , New Street , New Moor Street . It was , I think , on February 15th that I sailed from Jaffna to Marichchukaddi in an open native boat . It took me a day and a half to reach Marichchukaddi . I lay on ...
Page 112
... street of Jaffna and he met the G.A. , Mr. Price , and the O.A. , Mr. Woolf , who were riding up the street in the opposite direction . As they passed one another , Mr. Woolf turned his horse and deliberately hit Mr. Sanderasekara in ...
... street of Jaffna and he met the G.A. , Mr. Price , and the O.A. , Mr. Woolf , who were riding up the street in the opposite direction . As they passed one another , Mr. Woolf turned his horse and deliberately hit Mr. Sanderasekara in ...
Page 113
... street by building verandahs and stoeps out on to the highway . I remembered the long straight street in the glare and dust , the white houses and verandahs , and women's heads peering through blinds or round doors to see what the white ...
... street by building verandahs and stoeps out on to the highway . I remembered the long straight street in the glare and dust , the white houses and verandahs , and women's heads peering through blinds or round doors to see what the white ...
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