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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It took a considerable time before people living outside France became aware of the Dreyfus case and its im- portance , and so it was several years after the Armenian massacres that I had my second political revelation from Paris .
It took a considerable time before people living outside France became aware of the Dreyfus case and its im- portance , and so it was several years after the Armenian massacres that I had my second political revelation from Paris .
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Friday , June 14 , the Germans took Paris , and we spent the day incongruously - or from another point of view appropriately with history being made so catastrophi- cally across the Channel - for we took a journey from the present into ...
Friday , June 14 , the Germans took Paris , and we spent the day incongruously - or from another point of view appropriately with history being made so catastrophi- cally across the Channel - for we took a journey from the present into ...
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More than once I have sat in the train for four hours or more on the journey from Victoria to Lewes which normally took an hour ; the main line had been bombed and we had to trickle half - way round Surrey and Sussex in order eventually ...
More than once I have sat in the train for four hours or more on the journey from Victoria to Lewes which normally took an hour ; the main line had been bombed and we had to trickle half - way round Surrey and Sussex in order eventually ...
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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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