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Proms Short Story

By Leonard Woolf.

An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful native prostitute and buys her out of the brothel where she works in this acutely observed story of desire, expectation and colonial life at the beginning of the 20th century. Read by Alex Jennings.

20 minutes

Last on

Sun 10 Aug 2008 20:30

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  • Sun 10 Aug 2008 20:30