Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Page 23
Then we were told what our first appointments were to be . I was to go as Cadet
to Jaffna in the Northern Province . As I walked out of the Secretariat into the
Colombo sun , which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were
smacking ...
Then we were told what our first appointments were to be . I was to go as Cadet
to Jaffna in the Northern Province . As I walked out of the Secretariat into the
Colombo sun , which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were
smacking ...
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It went on like this for a full half hour , and if you left out the curses and the
language , you would find the same sort of stilted stuff in any of the swarms of ist
class books in the Union library . I began my life as a civil servant in Jaffna by
living with ...
It went on like this for a full half hour , and if you left out the curses and the
language , you would find the same sort of stilted stuff in any of the swarms of ist
class books in the Union library . I began my life as a civil servant in Jaffna by
living with ...
Page 49
It is quite different in Jaffna ; there as soon as you leave the main street , the
esplanade , or the seashore , you are in a typical Tamil village of narrow roads
between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows ,
bowered in ...
It is quite different in Jaffna ; there as soon as you leave the main street , the
esplanade , or the seashore , you are in a typical Tamil village of narrow roads
between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows ,
bowered in ...
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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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User Review - robertsgirl - LibraryThingThis is the second book Leonard Woolf wrote of his life. He is a graceful author, and a sensitive man. Good look into an aristocratic young britisher and his growing up. Read full review
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| Title | Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Volume 2 of An autobiography, Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Autobiography, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0701202521, 9780701202521 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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