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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... passed into the Indian Civil Service . There were also two or three Colombo business men , in par- ticular a large flamboyant Mr. X who was employed in a big Colombo shop . It gradually became clear to us that Mr. X and his friends ...
... passed into the Indian Civil Service . There were also two or three Colombo business men , in par- ticular a large flamboyant Mr. X who was employed in a big Colombo shop . It gradually became clear to us that Mr. X and his friends ...
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... passed through the crowd on the verandah , a feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con- temptuous . But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal ...
... passed through the crowd on the verandah , a feeling of irritation and contempt . I too , like everyone else , was at first irritated and con- temptuous . But gradually these feelings , when I was left by myself in the kachcheri to deal ...
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... passed boutique after boutique , selling flowers and fruit , to be offered in the temple and mutatis mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London's Victoria Street , selling their candles and images of the ...
... passed boutique after boutique , selling flowers and fruit , to be offered in the temple and mutatis mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London's Victoria Street , selling their candles and images of the ...
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