Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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Page 62
... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon . I felt keenly the complete loss of the life which I had lived at Cambridge , its friends and friendship . In every conceivable way my life in Jaffna was the exact opposite ...
... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon . I felt keenly the complete loss of the life which I had lived at Cambridge , its friends and friendship . In every conceivable way my life in Jaffna was the exact opposite ...
Page 91
... Lytton I wrote : " The work is consequently going on day and night and I have only been about 3 or 4 hours in bed out of the last 72. " I think that my recovery from typhoid had given me a new lease of life and , as I often said at the ...
... Lytton I wrote : " The work is consequently going on day and night and I have only been about 3 or 4 hours in bed out of the last 72. " I think that my recovery from typhoid had given me a new lease of life and , as I often said at the ...
Page 172
... Lytton and I wrote to each other continually . But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each ...
... Lytton and I wrote to each other continually . But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each ...
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