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planters lived on their dreary tea estates and they enjoyed superficially complete social equality with the civil servants . They belonged to the same clubs , played tennis together , and occasionally intermarried .
planters lived on their dreary tea estates and they enjoyed superficially complete social equality with the civil servants . They belonged to the same clubs , played tennis together , and occasionally intermarried .
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Here I had my first plunge into the social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be immersed for over six years , but which always retained for me a tinge of theatrical unreality . There was Vigors , the Government ...
Here I had my first plunge into the social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be immersed for over six years , but which always retained for me a tinge of theatrical unreality . There was Vigors , the Government ...
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A social analysis of the service in my time would , I think , have revealed the curious fact that , if you were thought to be not much of a " good fellow " ur not much of a “ gentleman ” , this was considered by the Colonial Secretary ...
A social analysis of the service in my time would , I think , have revealed the curious fact that , if you were thought to be not much of a " good fellow " ur not much of a “ gentleman ” , this was considered by the Colonial Secretary ...
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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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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