Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of the Hogarth Press, as well as portraits of Sigmund Freud, T. S. Eliot, and others. "There is a lucid probity in Leonard Woolf's writing" (Leon Edel, Saturday Review). Index; photographs. |
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Page 25
Contemplating this and them, I feel the horror of the savagery of contemporary
man in a way in which I do not feel it when I hear of the more horrible stories of
the massacre of millions. I knew them as individuals, and it is as an individual that
I ...
Contemplating this and them, I feel the horror of the savagery of contemporary
man in a way in which I do not feel it when I hear of the more horrible stories of
the massacre of millions. I knew them as individuals, and it is as an individual that
I ...
Page 189
It is, of course, easy and, particularly since 1847 and the Communist Manifesto,
fashionable to pick holes in bourgeois civilization or savagery, and I am sure that
I should soon feel suffocated if I had to live my life in the featherbed civilization of
...
It is, of course, easy and, particularly since 1847 and the Communist Manifesto,
fashionable to pick holes in bourgeois civilization or savagery, and I am sure that
I should soon feel suffocated if I had to live my life in the featherbed civilization of
...
Page 205
I could never quite understand Virginia's feeling about her books and their
reputation in the world. ... I do not think that she had any belief in life after death,
but she appeared to feel that somehow or other she was involved in their life after
her ...
I could never quite understand Virginia's feeling about her books and their
reputation in the world. ... I do not think that she had any belief in life after death,
but she appeared to feel that somehow or other she was involved in their life after
her ...
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| Title | Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 A Harvest book ; HB 322 Volume 322 of Harvest books |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | illustrated, reissue |
| Publisher | Hogarth P., 1967 |
| ISBN | 0156261456, 9780156261456 |
| Length | 259 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Historical Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Biography & Autobiography / Political |
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