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 21
... whole impact of Colombo , the G.O.H. , and Ceylon in those first hours and days , and this curious mixture of intense reality and unreality applied to all my seven years in Ceylon . If one lives where one was born and bred , the ...
... whole impact of Colombo , the G.O.H. , and Ceylon in those first hours and days , and this curious mixture of intense reality and unreality applied to all my seven years in Ceylon . If one lives where one was born and bred , the ...
Page 125
... whole thing concerned me intimately , completely fas- cinated , with a grim objectivity I watched him " dealing with " the situation . I think perhaps that I can best show what happened by quoting the account of it which I wrote to ...
... whole thing concerned me intimately , completely fas- cinated , with a grim objectivity I watched him " dealing with " the situation . I think perhaps that I can best show what happened by quoting the account of it which I wrote to ...
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... whole line waited for a few minutes , each beast swaying , fidgeting , lifting up one foot after another in that pattern of eternal restlessness from which no elephant for a single moment seems able to escape . The whole line swayed and ...
... whole line waited for a few minutes , each beast swaying , fidgeting , lifting up one foot after another in that pattern of eternal restlessness from which no elephant for a single moment seems able to escape . The whole line swayed and ...
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