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... oneself into a strange land and a strange life , v one feels as if one were acting in a play or living in a dream . And plays and dreams have that curious mixture of admitted unreality and the most intense and vivid reality which ...
... oneself into a strange land and a strange life , v one feels as if one were acting in a play or living in a dream . And plays and dreams have that curious mixture of admitted unreality and the most intense and vivid reality which ...
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Dutton , the P.M. , was a strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later . This , as I have said , was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social ...
Dutton , the P.M. , was a strange character ; a strange fate , partly due to me , befell him , but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later . This , as I have said , was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social ...
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But I got to know a good deal about them from enquiries which I had to hold in the kachcheri , and in particular from the strange procedure with regard to Kandyan marriages and divorce . This procedure was characteristic of the ...
But I got to know a good deal about them from enquiries which I had to hold in the kachcheri , and in particular from the strange procedure with regard to Kandyan marriages and divorce . This procedure was characteristic of the ...
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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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