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Page 226
As Silindu said the last words , Babehami half stopped and turned his head : he
just saw Silindu's blazing eyes and foam on the corner of his lips : at the same
moment he felt the cold muzzle of the gun pressed against his back . Silindu
pulled ...
As Silindu said the last words , Babehami half stopped and turned his head : he
just saw Silindu's blazing eyes and foam on the corner of his lips : at the same
moment he felt the cold muzzle of the gun pressed against his back . Silindu
pulled ...
Page 237
When Silindu entered the room with the Ratemahatmaya , the magistrate was
lying in a long chair reading a book . He got up and went over to sit down at the
writing - table . He was the white Hamadoru , whom Silindu had seen before in
the ...
When Silindu entered the room with the Ratemahatmaya , the magistrate was
lying in a long chair reading a book . He got up and went over to sit down at the
writing - table . He was the white Hamadoru , whom Silindu had seen before in
the ...
Page 253
One told how he had seen Silindu and the Arachchi leave the village , Silindu
walking behind and carrying a gun ; another had heard a shot from the direction
of the chena ; another had seen Silindu return by himself to the village carrying a
...
One told how he had seen Silindu and the Arachchi leave the village , Silindu
walking behind and carrying a gun ; another had heard a shot from the direction
of the chena ; another had seen Silindu return by himself to the village carrying a
...
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User Review - kaitanya64 - LibraryThingSet in colonial Ceylon, this novel is vivid and readable. While the author clearly illustrates a particular culture and time, that of a rural family in the "dry" forest area, where life is ... Read full review
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User Review - Steve38 - LibraryThingDear me but this is a depressing book. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong for the main characters. Written from the point of view of impoverished, uneducated jungle dwellers in Sri Lanka by ... Read full review
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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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