Stories of the East

Woolf, Leonard · 1969

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS, HOGARTH HOUSE, RICHMOND. Many people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal things--the truth, he called it. "They don't like it," he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. "But why the devil shouldn't they? They pretend these sorts of things, battle, murder, and sudden death, are so real--more real than white kid gloves and omnibuses and rose leaves--and yet when you give them the real thing, they curl up like school girls. It does them good, you know, does them a world of good."…

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