Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2

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Page 49An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. suburb is urban, as a
rule horribly and hideously urban, and markedly different from the countryside
and the rural village. When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the
country ...

Page 233The village headman then gave me the following list of evils which had come
upon them: (1) the road tax, (2) the V.C. tax, (3) the irrigation rate, (4) the taxes on
carts and guns, (5) the restriction of chenas, (6) a strict Assistant Government
Agent ...

Page 236There was, for instance, a large village in the extreme west of the District in which
a tremendous dispute over the ownership of land had been going on for a long
time and had caused an immense amount of litigation and even some crimes of ...

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In the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ...Read full review

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This is the second book Leonard Woolf wrote of his life. He is a graceful author, and a sensitive man. Good look into an aristocratic young britisher and his growing up.Read full review