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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When the night bombings of London began we were still living during the week in Mecklenburgh Square ; but when the house was made uninhabitable by bombs , which fell in the square and in the street behind it , we had to live in Rodmell ...
When the night bombings of London began we were still living during the week in Mecklenburgh Square ; but when the house was made uninhabitable by bombs , which fell in the square and in the street behind it , we had to live in Rodmell ...
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In the latter part of 1940 , when we were living perma- nently in Rodmell , it was during the mass raids on London a sinister thing to listen every night to the drone of the German planes flying inland . In the hour or more of silence ...
In the latter part of 1940 , when we were living perma- nently in Rodmell , it was during the mass raids on London a sinister thing to listen every night to the drone of the German planes flying inland . In the hour or more of silence ...
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Virginia herself , in the passage from her diary quoted above , in 1932 said that Night and Day was dead . In the third factual book , The Years , there is again something radically wrong . The “ factual " novel , the facts , got out of ...
Virginia herself , in the passage from her diary quoted above , in 1932 said that Night and Day was dead . In the third factual book , The Years , there is again something radically wrong . The “ factual " novel , the facts , got out of ...
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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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