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 78
... sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges . It seemed to be absolutely uninhabited except for one enormous temple standing quite solitary in this wilderness of sand ...
... sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges . It seemed to be absolutely uninhabited except for one enormous temple standing quite solitary in this wilderness of sand ...
Page 88
... sand , I felt that , though my body was unwashed and unshaved , my mind had been curiously cleaned and purified . Naturally I was instantly and appropriately recalled to reality . The G.A.'s bungalow had been built on a small hillock of ...
... sand , I felt that , though my body was unwashed and unshaved , my mind had been curiously cleaned and purified . Naturally I was instantly and appropriately recalled to reality . The G.A.'s bungalow had been built on a small hillock of ...
Page 122
... sand was quite invisible and there were no villages and no inhabitants . All I could do was to look at the stars and ride south and trust to luck . My horse then performed one of those curious feats of instinct which always astonish me ...
... sand was quite invisible and there were no villages and no inhabitants . All I could do was to look at the stars and ride south and trust to luck . My horse then performed one of those curious feats of instinct which always astonish me ...
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