Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Page 73
I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so
painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some
excuse and went off to bed , promising to come and see them if I was ever in
Matara ...
I felt terribly sorry for them , but far more for her than for him . It became indeed so
painful , this patter of expressed and unexpressed misery , that I made some
excuse and went off to bed , promising to come and see them if I was ever in
Matara ...
Page 81
I hardly knew Shipton and I did not like to tell him that I felt ill , so I crawled out of
bed and joined him at breakfast on the verandah . There is an eastern dish called
hoppers , which is I believe a corruption of the Tamil “ appam ” ; it is a kind of ...
I hardly knew Shipton and I did not like to tell him that I felt ill , so I crawled out of
bed and joined him at breakfast on the verandah . There is an eastern dish called
hoppers , which is I believe a corruption of the Tamil “ appam ” ; it is a kind of ...
Page 136
I can still feel what I felt the first evening that Tyrrell took me down to the Club . I
was the new boy again , nervous and uncomfortable . Freud says in one of his
books that civilization consists in the renunciation of instinctive desires and that
the ...
I can still feel what I felt the first evening that Tyrrell took me down to the Club . I
was the new boy again , nervous and uncomfortable . Freud says in one of his
books that civilization consists in the renunciation of instinctive desires and that
the ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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User Review - robertsgirl - LibraryThingThis is the second book Leonard Woolf wrote of his life. He is a graceful author, and a sensitive man. Good look into an aristocratic young britisher and his growing up. Read full review
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| Title | Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Volume 2 of An autobiography, Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Autobiography, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0701202521, 9780701202521 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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