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grain and curry stuffs on the same terms ; and among a crowd of smaller men the
sly - faced low - caste man , who called himself Achchige Don Andris ( his real
name Andrissa would have revealed his caste ) , who , dressed in dirty white ...
grain and curry stuffs on the same terms ; and among a crowd of smaller men the
sly - faced low - caste man , who called himself Achchige Don Andris ( his real
name Andrissa would have revealed his caste ) , who , dressed in dirty white ...
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Even in those days he was a Tamil god , so he called to a band of Tamils who
were passing , and asked them to carry him down across the river . The Tamils
answered , “ Lord , we are poor men , and have travelled far on our way to collect
salt ...
Even in those days he was a Tamil god , so he called to a band of Tamils who
were passing , and asked them to carry him down across the river . The Tamils
answered , “ Lord , we are poor men , and have travelled far on our way to collect
salt ...
Page 144
It was useless for him to do anything now . For days Silindu sat about the
compound “ thinking and thinking , ” as Punchi Menika called it . She alone had
any influence with him , and even she had no power to console him . In time grief
lost its ...
It was useless for him to do anything now . For days Silindu sat about the
compound “ thinking and thinking , ” as Punchi Menika called it . She alone had
any influence with him , and even she had no power to console him . In time grief
lost its ...
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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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