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A Tale Told by Moonlight

By Leonard Woolf, read by Alex Jennings.

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

20 minutes

Last on

Fri 29 May 2009 19:50

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  • Fri 29 May 2009 19:50