Downhill All the Way: Autobiography of the Years, 1919-39 by Leonard Woolf

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E. all going to the same place-the first bus being full, the second half-full, and the two or three others empty. They dash off almost immediately and the slightest hesitation on the part of anyone in the queue will leave him behind to wait a long wait for another conglomeration of buses. e. e. e. to provide thehighestpossiblewage under the best possible working conditions for the producer; thirdly, to obtain from the public the maximum amount in fares so that, while payingthehighestpossiblewages, the whole business can be run at a profit, oratleastnotaloss.

Kew Gardens showed me that we could, if we wished, publish a book commercially and successfully. When, therefore, Koteliansky brought us Gorky's Reminiscences ofTolstoi and suggested that we should publish it, we were faced with a difficult decision. He translated some of it to us and we saw at once that it was a masterpiece. If we published it, we should have to print at least I ,ooo copies, a number which we could not possibly manage ourselves. ' It was an immediate success and we had to reprint another I ,ooo copies before the end of the year.

The following entry in her drary on September I 5, I 920, shows this: could not go on for long periods uninterruptedly writing fiction and she relieved the strain by doing something which used another part of her brain or literary imagination. As the years went on, she discovered that reviewing performed this function admirably; it gave her the relief which some thinkers or writers find in chess or crossword puzzles. I give below the figures of Virginia's earnings by her pen or typewriter in the years I 9 I9 to I924.

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