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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Page 33
... Tamil district ; Tamil was the first eastern language which I had to learn and I got to know the people fairly well . They have to work hard and they do work extraordinarily hard to make a living out of a stony , unsmiling , and not , I ...
... Tamil district ; Tamil was the first eastern language which I had to learn and I got to know the people fairly well . They have to work hard and they do work extraordinarily hard to make a living out of a stony , unsmiling , and not , I ...
Page 93
... Tamils . The Tamil crowd was low in tone , rather timid , depressed and complaining in adversity . The Arab superficially was the exact opposite . At the end of the Fishery I went in a small steamer , packed with about 1,000 Arabs and ...
... Tamils . The Tamil crowd was low in tone , rather timid , depressed and complaining in adversity . The Arab superficially was the exact opposite . At the end of the Fishery I went in a small steamer , packed with about 1,000 Arabs and ...
Page 113
... Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or ac- cepted it . It shocked me that these people should think that , as a white man and a ruler of Ceylon , I should consider the brown man , the Tamil , to be one of " the lesser ...
... Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or ac- cepted it . It shocked me that these people should think that , as a white man and a ruler of Ceylon , I should consider the brown man , the Tamil , to be one of " the lesser ...
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