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Leonard Woolf. Foreword The fiction written by Westerners about Asia , and
about the Western experience in Asia , is extensive . Much of it is of a quality
which places it within th : forefront of Western literature as a whole , a distinction
which ...
Leonard Woolf. Foreword The fiction written by Westerners about Asia , and
about the Western experience in Asia , is extensive . Much of it is of a quality
which places it within th : forefront of Western literature as a whole , a distinction
which ...
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Leonard Woolf. learning , understanding , and portraying what it is really like to
be an Asian peasant , that vast majority of the eastern half of the world which one
is tempted to say no Western writer but Woolf has ever really understood or ...
Leonard Woolf. learning , understanding , and portraying what it is really like to
be an Asian peasant , that vast majority of the eastern half of the world which one
is tempted to say no Western writer but Woolf has ever really understood or ...
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Leonard Woolf. to him , Village in the Jungle was allowed to go out of print . It is
an occasion for celebration that B.R. Publishing Corporation have now reprinted
it . One may hope that the novel may acquire the place it has long merited , not ...
Leonard Woolf. to him , Village in the Jungle was allowed to go out of print . It is
an occasion for celebration that B.R. Publishing Corporation have now reprinted
it . One may hope that the novel may acquire the place it has long merited , not ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Village in the Jungle |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2009 |
| ISBN | 0883867052, 9780883867051 |
| Length | 301 pages |
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