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 78
... sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges . It seemed to be absolutely uninhabited except for one enormous temple standing quite solitary in this wilderness of sand ...
... sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges . It seemed to be absolutely uninhabited except for one enormous temple standing quite solitary in this wilderness of sand ...
Page 80
... sand ; thick jungle began four miles from the sea , and between the sand and the jungle stretched a large area of dry , parched paddy fields . In the middle was a small ancient Dutch fort , converted into a Rest House in which I stayed ...
... sand ; thick jungle began four miles from the sea , and between the sand and the jungle stretched a large area of dry , parched paddy fields . In the middle was a small ancient Dutch fort , converted into a Rest House in which I stayed ...
Page 176
... sand , which was the tip of the promontory . To the right was an absolutely straight stretch of about two miles of the sea shore , dazzling white sand . All the year round day and night , if you looked down that long two- mile line of ...
... sand , which was the tip of the promontory . To the right was an absolutely straight stretch of about two miles of the sea shore , dazzling white sand . All the year round day and night , if you looked down that long two- mile line of ...
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