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 59
... curious feelings and excitement from these curious rare incidents and sights or else the boredom of work and the nausea of conversation . The following is perhaps worth quoting as giving a picture of a Ceylon hospital in 1905 : Last ...
... curious feelings and excitement from these curious rare incidents and sights or else the boredom of work and the nausea of conversation . The following is perhaps worth quoting as giving a picture of a Ceylon hospital in 1905 : Last ...
Page 104
... curious characters . One of the most curious exhibits was Sir William Twynam , K.C.M.G. When I knew him he was 79 years old , living in a house not far from our bungalow on the seashore , a straight - backed , lean , scraggy old man ...
... curious characters . One of the most curious exhibits was Sir William Twynam , K.C.M.G. When I knew him he was 79 years old , living in a house not far from our bungalow on the seashore , a straight - backed , lean , scraggy old man ...
Page 135
... curious air of slight depression , but at the same time exclusiveness , superiority , isolation . Only the " best people " and of course only white men were members . At the same time there was none of the physical luxuriousness ...
... curious air of slight depression , but at the same time exclusiveness , superiority , isolation . Only the " best people " and of course only white men were members . At the same time there was none of the physical luxuriousness ...
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