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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.
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