Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156372150 ISBN 13: 9780156372152

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1989

Woolf'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.

About the Author:

Leonard Sidney Woolf (November 25, 1880 – August 14, 1969) was a noted British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant, but perhaps now best known as the widower of author Virginia Woolf.

Works

• The Village in the Jungle - 1913
• The Wise Virgins - 1914
• International Government - 1916
• The Future of Constantinople - 1917
• Cooperation and the Future of Industry - 1918
• Economic Imperialism - 1920
• Empire and Commerce in Africa - 1920
• Socialism and Co-operation - 1921
• Fear and Politics - 1925
• Essays on Literature, History, Politics - 1927
• Hunting the Highbrow - 1927
• Imperialism and Civilization - 1928
• After the Deluge (Principia Politica), 3 vols. - 1931, 1939, 1953
• Quack! Quack! - 1935
• Barbarians At The Gate - 1939
• The War for Peace - 1940
• A Calendar of Consolation - selected by Leonard Woolf, 1967

Autobiographical Works

• Woolf, Leonard (1960). Sowing: an autobiography of the years, 1880–1904. London: Hogarth Press. OCLC 185524636.  Published in America as Woolf, Leonard (1960). Sowing: an autobiography of the years, 1880–1904 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace. ISBN 9780156839457. OCLC 1346957.  Also OCLC 1339821.
• Woolf, Leonard (1961). Growing: an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. OCLC 494500.  Also OCLC 21246847 (1977), OCLC 67527334 (1967).
• Woolf, Leonard (1963). Diaries in Ceylon, 1908–1911, and Stories from the East: records of a colonial administrator. London: Hogarth Press. OCLC 30240642.  Also OCLC 4194108
• Woolf, Leonard (1964). Beginning again: an autobiography of the years 1911–1918. London: Hogarth Press. ISBN 9780701202507. OCLC 186031278.  Published in America as Woolf, Leonard (1964). Beginning again: an autobiography of the years 1911–1918 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. OCLC 264298. 
• Woolf, Leonard (1967). Downhill all the way: an autobiography of the years 1919–1939 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. OCLC 1065888. 
• Woolf, Leonard (1969). The journey not the arrival matters: an autobiography of the years 1939–1969. London: Hogarth Press. ISBN 9780701203269. OCLC 186031338.  Published in America as Woolf, Leonard (1969). The journey not the arrival matters: an autobiography of the years 1939–1969 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. OCLC 58615.