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The village in the jungle

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B.R. Pub. Corp., 1926 - Fiction - 301 pages

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This book deserves more recognition than it's gotten. While it's seen as a classic in Sri Lanka, I don't know that it is elsewhere. This book, set mostly in Sri Lankan jungle, follows the inhabitants ...

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Successfully depicts the hardscrabble existence of rural poor amidst the oppressive atmosphere of the ever invasive wilderness that eventually reclaims everything. Read full review

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TitleThe village in the jungle
AuthorLeonard Woolf
Edition2, reprint
PublisherB.R. Pub. Corp., 1926
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized19 Feb 2009
Length301 pages
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