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 12
... Nearly all my fellow - passengers were quite unlike the people whom I had known at home or at Cambridge . On the face of it and of them they were very ordinary persons with whom in my previous life I would have felt that I had little in ...
... Nearly all my fellow - passengers were quite unlike the people whom I had known at home or at Cambridge . On the face of it and of them they were very ordinary persons with whom in my previous life I would have felt that I had little in ...
Page 50
... nearly equal to that of Trafalgar Square ; it has a rather beautiful solidity and austerity ; it is perfectly intact , the ramparts , walls , and bastions being exactly what they must have been when the Portuguese built them . It was ...
... nearly equal to that of Trafalgar Square ; it has a rather beautiful solidity and austerity ; it is perfectly intact , the ramparts , walls , and bastions being exactly what they must have been when the Portuguese built them . It was ...
Page 69
... nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss Beeching . And I think I noticed , without really paying any attention to it , that sometimes the two missionaries would sit on after their game was ...
... nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss Beeching . And I think I noticed , without really paying any attention to it , that sometimes the two missionaries would sit on after their game was ...
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