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 61
... mind - all at the same time . I felt that at any moment I might raise your old cry : " I resign " . But it is a relief after the dreary drudgery of the kachcheri . Its sordidity is almost superb : you see all the curious people and ...
... mind - all at the same time . I felt that at any moment I might raise your old cry : " I resign " . But it is a relief after the dreary drudgery of the kachcheri . Its sordidity is almost superb : you see all the curious people and ...
Page 66
... mind in chaotic incomprehensibility . When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the animals killed by me , saw the disgusting , semi - digested contents of their upper intes- tines ...
... mind in chaotic incomprehensibility . When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the animals killed by me , saw the disgusting , semi - digested contents of their upper intes- tines ...
Page 247
... mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a house which she rented in Firle near Lewes . And ...
... mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a house which she rented in Firle near Lewes . And ...
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