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 92
... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
Page 133
... deal to complete my education as an anti - imperialist . Kandy was to a large extent Europeanized , it was a town of about 30,000 inhabitants , it was full of white men . There were far more Government servants , of course , than in ...
... deal to complete my education as an anti - imperialist . Kandy was to a large extent Europeanized , it was a town of about 30,000 inhabitants , it was full of white men . There were far more Government servants , of course , than in ...
Page 156
... deal of it was boring or to me uninteresting . One was continually having to deal with the planters and their estates and labour , and there was much business connected with the sale and settlement of Crown Land . All this I found dull ...
... deal of it was boring or to me uninteresting . One was continually having to deal with the planters and their estates and labour , and there was much business connected with the sale and settlement of Crown Land . All this I found dull ...
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