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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Yeats sat in the place of honour, but was grumpy and silent, and Virginia was
commandeered, much too obviously, by Ottoline to go over and sit next to him
and talk him, if possible, into a better mood. James Stephens was one of those
Irish ...
Yeats sat in the place of honour, but was grumpy and silent, and Virginia was
commandeered, much too obviously, by Ottoline to go over and sit next to him
and talk him, if possible, into a better mood. James Stephens was one of those
Irish ...
Page 150
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 ...
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 ...
Page 232
had great charm, and, though there was a congenital aloofness about him, I had
no difficulty in talking to him. It was a rather strange and inconclusive
conversation. I had thought and still think that he had intended to discuss politics
and, ...
had great charm, and, though there was a congenital aloofness about him, I had
no difficulty in talking to him. It was a rather strange and inconclusive
conversation. I had thought and still think that he had intended to discuss politics
and, ...
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