The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 66
Page 18
... first person in the world to express this intense , personal horror of cruelty . He was , too , the first completely modern man ; he was pre - eminently a man of the Renais- sance , that movement in the minds of men and therefore in ...
... first person in the world to express this intense , personal horror of cruelty . He was , too , the first completely modern man ; he was pre - eminently a man of the Renais- sance , that movement in the minds of men and therefore in ...
Page 31
... first air raid of the war - it was , of course , a false alarm - came to Rodmell on a lovely autumnal or late summer day . It came , I think , just after or before breakfast and I walked out onto the lawn which looks over the water ...
... first air raid of the war - it was , of course , a false alarm - came to Rodmell on a lovely autumnal or late summer day . It came , I think , just after or before breakfast and I walked out onto the lawn which looks over the water ...
Page 38
... first time , it had a strange im- pact on one . The first thing one noticed was the litter of glass from the windows all the way up Holborn . Then the silence — no traffic and very few people about . The holes in the façade of the ...
... first time , it had a strange im- pact on one . The first thing one noticed was the litter of glass from the windows all the way up Holborn . Then the silence — no traffic and very few people about . The holes in the façade of the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alice asked autobiography barbarism became began bombs Brighton British Ceylon Chatto Civil Service cruelty death diary Downhill Dreyfus edited editor Elizabeth England English Fabian Society face fact feel felt France garden German plane Government Agent Hambantota Hitler Hogarth Press horrible human imperialism importance incident Israel Jews John Lehmann kind Kingsley Martin knew Labour Party Labour Party Advisory lady later League of Nations Leonard Woolf Lewes living London look magnetic field Mecklenburgh Square ment mind Monks House morning Mudaliyar never night novel Octavia one's paper Party Advisory Committee passion Percy pleasure Political Quarterly publishing business Rodmell Roger Fry round seemed Sinhalese sitting Statesman Strachey strange suicide Sussex talking terrible things thought tion Trekkie Victoria Square Virginia Vita W. H. Smith walk water-meadows week woman Woolf writing wrote young