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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Chapter One PEACE IN OUR TIME, O LORD ... In 1914 in the background of
one's life and one's mind there were light and hope; by 1918 one had
unconsciously accepted a perpetual public menace and darkness and had
admitted into the ...
Chapter One PEACE IN OUR TIME, O LORD ... In 1914 in the background of
one's life and one's mind there were light and hope; by 1918 one had
unconsciously accepted a perpetual public menace and darkness and had
admitted into the ...
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form of one's life, disrupted or distorted its movement. But what has the deepest
and most permanent effect upon oneself and one's way of living is the house in
which one lives. The house determines the day-to-day, hour-to-hour, ...
form of one's life, disrupted or distorted its movement. But what has the deepest
and most permanent effect upon oneself and one's way of living is the house in
which one lives. The house determines the day-to-day, hour-to-hour, ...
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On the bench one has to be perpetually on one's guard against oneself, to
prevent one's previous beliefs and prejudices interfering with one's acceptance
or rejection of facts and arguments. But still more necessary is it consciously to
watch ...
On the bench one has to be perpetually on one's guard against oneself, to
prevent one's previous beliefs and prejudices interfering with one's acceptance
or rejection of facts and arguments. But still more necessary is it consciously to
watch ...
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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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