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The crude exoticism of what was to be my life or my dream for the next few years was brought home to me by two trivial and absurd incidents in the next few hours after my arrival . It was a rule of the P. & O. not to take dogs on their ...
The crude exoticism of what was to be my life or my dream for the next few years was brought home to me by two trivial and absurd incidents in the next few hours after my arrival . It was a rule of the P. & O. not to take dogs on their ...
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Indeed within four months of my arrival in Ceylon and three months of my arrival in Jaffna , I was , to all intents and purposes , left for two weeks entirely and solely in charge of the Northern Province , because the G.A. was miles ...
Indeed within four months of my arrival in Ceylon and three months of my arrival in Jaffna , I was , to all intents and purposes , left for two weeks entirely and solely in charge of the Northern Province , because the G.A. was miles ...
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Two days later the party arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota ...
Two days later the party arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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