Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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... Jaffna with a Sinhalese servant , my dog , a wooden crate containing Voltaire , and an enormous tin- lined trunk containing clothes . In those days the journey , even without this impedimenta , was not an easy one . Jaffna , on the ...
... Jaffna with a Sinhalese servant , my dog , a wooden crate containing Voltaire , and an enormous tin- lined trunk containing clothes . In those days the journey , even without this impedimenta , was not an easy one . Jaffna , on the ...
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... Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is now the municipal area of Jaffna town . The consequence was that if I bicycled out of Jaffna to the opposite coast or to some far off village , as ...
... Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is now the municipal area of Jaffna town . The consequence was that if I bicycled out of Jaffna to the opposite coast or to some far off village , as ...
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... Jaffna for Kandy in 1907 , one of the leading lawyers , a respectable and respected man in Jaffna , V. Casippillai , who had nothing to gain by flattering me , wrote to me : Dear Sir , Jaffna 23rd August , 1907 I very much regret that I ...
... Jaffna for Kandy in 1907 , one of the leading lawyers , a respectable and respected man in Jaffna , V. Casippillai , who had nothing to gain by flattering me , wrote to me : Dear Sir , Jaffna 23rd August , 1907 I very much regret that I ...
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