Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 38
... five years before from an advertise- ment in the Exchange and Mart , a paper which was of absorbing interest to us in my boyhood . In term time I used to take him with me to Cambridge , where he was more a liability than an asset , for ...
... five years before from an advertise- ment in the Exchange and Mart , a paper which was of absorbing interest to us in my boyhood . In term time I used to take him with me to Cambridge , where he was more a liability than an asset , for ...
Page 111
... Five minutes after this , to me , eminently satisfactory testimonial , I literally saved the head clerk's life . Half - way to Kandy the train was drawing into a station , I suppose it was Ambepussa , and before it had stopped he ...
... Five minutes after this , to me , eminently satisfactory testimonial , I literally saved the head clerk's life . Half - way to Kandy the train was drawing into a station , I suppose it was Ambepussa , and before it had stopped he ...
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... five bell- shaped caskets , called karanduas , one within the other like Chinese boxes , and under the last and smallest casket lay the Tooth . The Tooth could never be taken out or shown without the consent of both the Manager or ...
... five bell- shaped caskets , called karanduas , one within the other like Chinese boxes , and under the last and smallest casket lay the Tooth . The Tooth could never be taken out or shown without the consent of both the Manager or ...
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