Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... deal in this kind of solid jungle country , for it covered half of the Hambantota District where I was Assistant Government Agent . It is oppressive and menacing , but I got to like it very much . It is full of trees and changing leaves ...
... deal in this kind of solid jungle country , for it covered half of the Hambantota District where I was Assistant Government Agent . It is oppressive and menacing , but I got to like it very much . It is full of trees and changing leaves ...
Page 92
... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
Page 237
... deal of ill - feeling had arisen among them , when the Hakim died , over the selection of a successor . Some of them wanted Mr. Doole , a chief headman , to be appointed , others wanted a Mr. Bahar who was the Government Salt ...
... deal of ill - feeling had arisen among them , when the Hakim died , over the selection of a successor . Some of them wanted Mr. Doole , a chief headman , to be appointed , others wanted a Mr. Bahar who was the Government Salt ...
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