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 12
... practically no ordinary persons , that beneath the façade of John Smith and Jane Brown there is a strange character and often a passionate individual . 1 The 1784 edition printed in Baskerville type . One of the most interesting and ...
... practically no ordinary persons , that beneath the façade of John Smith and Jane Brown there is a strange character and often a passionate individual . 1 The 1784 edition printed in Baskerville type . One of the most interesting and ...
Page 106
... practically no one else in Ceylon was a gentleman . He had three passions : regularity in his everyday life , horses , and golf . He was reputed in the Service to be very slightly mad , and I think that perhaps he was . As a young man ...
... practically no one else in Ceylon was a gentleman . He had three passions : regularity in his everyday life , horses , and golf . He was reputed in the Service to be very slightly mad , and I think that perhaps he was . As a young man ...
Page 126
... practically bound to go or he would have practically to go back on his word . I went to bed on Thursday wondering how he would manage it but certain that he would prevent me going . He took his own way , quite wonderfully , for it ...
... practically bound to go or he would have practically to go back on his word . I went to bed on Thursday wondering how he would manage it but certain that he would prevent me going . He took his own way , quite wonderfully , for it ...
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