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 49
... village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows , bowered in trees . And the feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils ...
... village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows , bowered in trees . And the feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils ...
Page 55
... village or on the bund of a village tank and discussing with the vil- lagers their interminable problems , disputes , grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time , after fifty years , the moment when I felt fully and ...
... village or on the bund of a village tank and discussing with the vil- lagers their interminable problems , disputes , grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first time , after fifty years , the moment when I felt fully and ...
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... villages and shoot the cattle and buffaloes of the villagers whom one knows and likes . The whole village seemed to have turned out and the men were standing on the road round the bodies of the animals ; there was a hostile murmur from ...
... villages and shoot the cattle and buffaloes of the villagers whom one knows and likes . The whole village seemed to have turned out and the men were standing on the road round the bodies of the animals ; there was a hostile murmur from ...
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