Woolf through the door 📚

I ordered a copy of Leonard Woolf's childhood autobiography. I was curious about how a late Victorian upbringing of privilege had led to anti-colonialist lefty-ism. It only came through my door today, so I haven't read it yet, except for the page at the front that lists Woolf's other books. Under the heading "History and Politics" it lists worthy but dull titles like "Socialism and Co-operation" and so on. Then in the same section comes:

Quack, Quack!

Please don't look up why that book belongs under history and politics. I like the idea that he thought ducks should be in there. The truth is probably banal.

Background

I previously read his second volume of autobiography about his time in Sri Lanka because I'd been to there as a tourist. He was a colonial administrator who decided colonialsim was bad. He gave it up and married the better known Virginia. I read all of Leonard's Sri Lanka book. I once tried one of Virginia's, was bored to tears, and gave up before I was half way through.

#weird

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