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 37
... suddenly had to be trans- ported over hundreds of miles in country which some- times was without a railway . I am a little proud of the fact that socially I lived down the 90 volumes and physically brought them back to England in fair ...
... suddenly had to be trans- ported over hundreds of miles in country which some- times was without a railway . I am a little proud of the fact that socially I lived down the 90 volumes and physically brought them back to England in fair ...
Page 210
... suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and malignant about him , his pachydermatous greyness , his wicked little eye , the menace of his trunk ...
... suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and malignant about him , his pachydermatous greyness , his wicked little eye , the menace of his trunk ...
Page 241
... Suddenly one of the lower castes announced that they would follow the same practice and the higher caste objected . When a man of the lower caste died and the corpse was about to be carried out , a large crowd of the higher caste ...
... Suddenly one of the lower castes announced that they would follow the same practice and the higher caste objected . When a man of the lower caste died and the corpse was about to be carried out , a large crowd of the higher caste ...
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