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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... talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think , both changed . He seemed to have shrunk and she to have swollen . They reminded me of those pairs of insects - some are ...
... talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think , both changed . He seemed to have shrunk and she to have swollen . They reminded me of those pairs of insects - some are ...
Page 97
... talked incessantly like an Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm Stevenson , K.C.M.G. , Governor of Cyprus . A curious incident hap- pened to us one night . We had been dining with the G.A. and were ...
... talked incessantly like an Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm Stevenson , K.C.M.G. , Governor of Cyprus . A curious incident hap- pened to us one night . We had been dining with the G.A. and were ...
Page 162
... talked and talked , and laughed , and watched me with his cunning beady eyes , and the villagers put in a word now and then , laughed respectfully when we laughed , and looked at one another , I noticed , occasionally out of the corner ...
... talked and talked , and laughed , and watched me with his cunning beady eyes , and the villagers put in a word now and then , laughed respectfully when we laughed , and looked at one another , I noticed , occasionally out of the corner ...
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