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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Page 49
... village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows , bowered in trees . And the feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils ...
... village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows , bowered in trees . And the feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils ...
Page 55
... village or on the bund of a village tank and discussing with the vil- lagers their interminable problems , disputes , grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time , after fifty years , the moment when I felt fully and ...
... village or on the bund of a village tank and discussing with the vil- lagers their interminable problems , disputes , grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time , after fifty years , the moment when I felt fully and ...
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... village life in Ceylon 50 years ago . The kernel of the trouble was 48 acres of land , the ownership of which was in dispute between the villagers on one side and the Court interpreter of Tangalla on the other . When I went to the village ...
... village life in Ceylon 50 years ago . The kernel of the trouble was 48 acres of land , the ownership of which was in dispute between the villagers on one side and the Court interpreter of Tangalla on the other . When I went to the village ...
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