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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... turned it for a moment in some other direction , it soon veered back to its permanent centre of attraction . But we were all rather grand , a good deal grander than we could have been at home in London or Edinburgh , Brighton or Oban ...
... turned it for a moment in some other direction , it soon veered back to its permanent centre of attraction . But we were all rather grand , a good deal grander than we could have been at home in London or Edinburgh , Brighton or Oban ...
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... turned upon me , red in the face , and violently told me that I was talking nonsense . Emboldened by Charles , the dead cat , and the dead snake , I told him what cards had been played by whom and turned up the trick which proved that ...
... turned upon me , red in the face , and violently told me that I was talking nonsense . Emboldened by Charles , the dead cat , and the dead snake , I told him what cards had been played by whom and turned up the trick which proved that ...
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... turned round a great rock and brought us out on to a broad ledge with a sheer drop thousands of feet down to the sea level and the low country , and with a superb , terrific view over the miles and miles of jungle to , in the dim ...
... turned round a great rock and brought us out on to a broad ledge with a sheer drop thousands of feet down to the sea level and the low country , and with a superb , terrific view over the miles and miles of jungle to , in the dim ...
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