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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James Stephens was one of those Irish Irishmen, the stage Irishman who never
stops talking with the soft brogue which ... The party began to go in the way in
which Ottoline liked parties to go—intimate, intense, and rather intensive talk
about ...
James Stephens was one of those Irish Irishmen, the stage Irishman who never
stops talking with the soft brogue which ... The party began to go in the way in
which Ottoline liked parties to go—intimate, intense, and rather intensive talk
about ...
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Adrian so curiously reminiscent—will talk of his school, of Greece, of his past as if
nothing had happened in between: a queer psychological fact in him—this
dwelling on the past, when there's his present and his future all round him: D. C.
to wit ...
Adrian so curiously reminiscent—will talk of his school, of Greece, of his past as if
nothing had happened in between: a queer psychological fact in him—this
dwelling on the past, when there's his present and his future all round him: D. C.
to wit ...
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had great charm, and, though there was a congenital aloofness about him, I had
no difficulty in talking to him. ... And in a vague way we did talk politics, the
problems of India and Ceylon; but it was pretty vague and somehow or other we ...
had great charm, and, though there was a congenital aloofness about him, I had
no difficulty in talking to him. ... And in a vague way we did talk politics, the
problems of India and Ceylon; but it was pretty vague and somehow or other we ...
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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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