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an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. suburb is urban, as a
rule horribly and hideously urban, and markedly different from the countryside
and the rural village. When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the
country ...
an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. suburb is urban, as a
rule horribly and hideously urban, and markedly different from the countryside
and the rural village. When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the
country ...
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to speak Sinhalese, sitting under a tree in a village or on the bund of a village
tank and discussing with the villagers their interminable problems, disputes,
grievances. And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time, after fifty years, the
moment ...
to speak Sinhalese, sitting under a tree in a village or on the bund of a village
tank and discussing with the villagers their interminable problems, disputes,
grievances. And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time, after fifty years, the
moment ...
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The village headman then gave me the following list of evils which had come
upon them: (1) the road tax, (2) the V.C. tax, (3) the irrigation rate, (4) the taxes on
carts and guns, (5) the restriction of chenas, (6) a strict Assistant Government
Agent ...
The village headman then gave me the following list of evils which had come
upon them: (1) the road tax, (2) the V.C. tax, (3) the irrigation rate, (4) the taxes on
carts and guns, (5) the restriction of chenas, (6) a strict Assistant Government
Agent ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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