The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs. |
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To return to bombing and to what did happen , some time in 1940 there were German planes over Rodmell one day and Virginia and I were standing in the garden when we heard the swishing of bombs through the air overhead and then the dull ...
To return to bombing and to what did happen , some time in 1940 there were German planes over Rodmell one day and Virginia and I were standing in the garden when we heard the swishing of bombs through the air overhead and then the dull ...
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a German bomber dropped a shower of incendiary bombs which just missed the village and fell all over the fields on the south of it . One of them hit a haystack a few hundred yards beyond the last house on the road to Newhaven .
a German bomber dropped a shower of incendiary bombs which just missed the village and fell all over the fields on the south of it . One of them hit a haystack a few hundred yards beyond the last house on the road to Newhaven .
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with one's fellows when the bombs fell . Everyone felt the extraordinary blossoming of the sense of comradeship and good - will which settled upon us in London during the blitz , and the falling of bombs loosened our tongues .
with one's fellows when the bombs fell . Everyone felt the extraordinary blossoming of the sense of comradeship and good - will which settled upon us in London during the blitz , and the falling of bombs loosened our tongues .
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Հաճախորդի կարծիքը - rowmyboat - LibraryThingAh, the somewhat less famous husband of Virginia! I've read volumes 1 and 5 of his autobiography, and loved them. Leonard Woolf was an extremely intelligent man and an excellent writer. His prose has ... Read full review
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