One Mad Bid for FreedomA Widly Hilarious Yet Ultimately Poignant Novel By Sri Lanka`S Finest Living English Language Novelist. |
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James Goonewardene. 1 The Legend - How It Began The tramps would come to sleep in the open veranda of the shack . The old man was alive then ; but some months later he died , after a brief illness . The tramps had always felt he was the ...
James Goonewardene. 1 The Legend - How It Began The tramps would come to sleep in the open veranda of the shack . The old man was alive then ; but some months later he died , after a brief illness . The tramps had always felt he was the ...
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... tramps said , his friends and relations took everything there was inside the shack - the few books that were left , his notebooks , his drawings , his pencils . They took even the packing - cases people used to sit on . They took the ...
... tramps said , his friends and relations took everything there was inside the shack - the few books that were left , his notebooks , his drawings , his pencils . They took even the packing - cases people used to sit on . They took the ...
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... tramps the question he would always ask them , if he met them , out on the beach . ' Have the fishermen gone fishing today ? Did you see them take the boats ? ' ' No , we didn't see them . ' ' No , you wouldn't , you wastrels , loafers ...
... tramps the question he would always ask them , if he met them , out on the beach . ' Have the fishermen gone fishing today ? Did you see them take the boats ? ' ' No , we didn't see them . ' ' No , you wouldn't , you wastrels , loafers ...
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