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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... strange land and a strange life , one feels as if one were acting in a play or living in a dream . And plays and dreams have that curious mixture of admitted unreality and the most intense and vivid reality which , I now see in ...
... strange land and a strange life , one feels as if one were acting in a play or living in a dream . And plays and dreams have that curious mixture of admitted unreality and the most intense and vivid reality which , I now see in ...
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... strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later . This , as have said , was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social routine was incredibly regular ...
... strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later . This , as have said , was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social routine was incredibly regular ...
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... strange sight one day when I was out with the same Watcher in thick jungle . We heard quite near us the most extraordinary guttural roaring noise . I had never heard it before and I asked the Watcher what it was ; he said that he did ...
... strange sight one day when I was out with the same Watcher in thick jungle . We heard quite near us the most extraordinary guttural roaring noise . I had never heard it before and I asked the Watcher what it was ; he said that he did ...
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