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 102
... lagoon . This is because the town and peninsula are almost completely shut in on the west by islands . Every now and again I had to sail out to these islands in a Government boat , a kind of dinghy , on Customs duty , and all along the ...
... lagoon . This is because the town and peninsula are almost completely shut in on the west by islands . Every now and again I had to sail out to these islands in a Government boat , a kind of dinghy , on Customs duty , and all along the ...
Page 176
... lagoons , behind the lagoons the enormous stretch of jungle , and behind the jungle far away in the north the long purple line of the great moun- tains , from which I looked down that evening with Rachel . One's memory in connection ...
... lagoons , behind the lagoons the enormous stretch of jungle , and behind the jungle far away in the north the long purple line of the great moun- tains , from which I looked down that evening with Rachel . One's memory in connection ...
Page 216
... lagoon about a mile long . Mermaid followed admirably with her mother and the two other dogs through the jungle . When we got out on to the sand of the lagoon , the pony began to gallop and started off in front of us a great herd of ...
... lagoon about a mile long . Mermaid followed admirably with her mother and the two other dogs through the jungle . When we got out on to the sand of the lagoon , the pony began to gallop and started off in front of us a great herd of ...
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