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Page 33
How should such a mother keep her children? All know that you have borne six,
and that all are dead. What did you ever give them but foul words?” “Go and lie
with your brother, the madman, the vedda, the pariah,” shrieked Angohami as ...
How should such a mother keep her children? All know that you have borne six,
and that all are dead. What did you ever give them but foul words?” “Go and lie
with your brother, the madman, the vedda, the pariah,” shrieked Angohami as ...
Page 131
And sometimes he would sit in the compound and tell his strange stories to her
and to the child, who had been born to her eighteen months before, and he was
happy as he had been happy with her and with Hinnihami years ago when they ...
And sometimes he would sit in the compound and tell his strange stories to her
and to the child, who had been born to her eighteen months before, and he was
happy as he had been happy with her and with Hinnihami years ago when they ...
Page 136
And the jungle pressed in and claimed two of the eight houses, after dysentery
and fever had taken the men, the women, and their children, who lived there.
Even Silindu's house did not escape: there death took its toll of the young. First
Punchi ...
And the jungle pressed in and claimed two of the eight houses, after dysentery
and fever had taken the men, the women, and their children, who lived there.
Even Silindu's house did not escape: there death took its toll of the young. First
Punchi ...
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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 |
| Length | 301 pages |
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