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 120
... miles of the District , and here for the first time I learnt the profound happiness of complete solitude . For a ... miles in length and about two miles across . I had a curious expedition when I had to go and hold a land enquiry about ...
... miles of the District , and here for the first time I learnt the profound happiness of complete solitude . For a ... miles in length and about two miles across . I had a curious expedition when I had to go and hold a land enquiry about ...
Page 174
... miles away on the other is another an Irrigation Engineer . There is also another Irrigation Engineer who suffers from chronic indigestion and fever 20 miles away in the jungle I don't quite know where . But the house , really it is ...
... miles away on the other is another an Irrigation Engineer . There is also another Irrigation Engineer who suffers from chronic indigestion and fever 20 miles away in the jungle I don't quite know where . But the house , really it is ...
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... miles in length ; its breadth was never more than 30 and in places was only about 10 miles . Except in the north - west it was entirely flat ; it lay in the dry zone , the low country . It had three divisions : Magampattu in the east ...
... miles in length ; its breadth was never more than 30 and in places was only about 10 miles . Except in the north - west it was entirely flat ; it lay in the dry zone , the low country . It had three divisions : Magampattu in the east ...
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