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Page 130
Leonard Woolf. streams overflowed , the water spread out in a vast sheet
beneath the trees . Not for forty years , it was said , had rain fallen so abundantly .
A great chena crop was assured . The more energetic began to talk of rice
cultivation ...
Leonard Woolf. streams overflowed , the water spread out in a vast sheet
beneath the trees . Not for forty years , it was said , had rain fallen so abundantly .
A great chena crop was assured . The more energetic began to talk of rice
cultivation ...
Page 214
Leonard Woolf. know . That is foolish talk . There in the town I do not understand
even what they say to me ; and the noise and the talking in the bazaar , and
people always laughing , and the long hard roads and so many houses all
together !
Leonard Woolf. know . That is foolish talk . There in the town I do not understand
even what they say to me ; and the noise and the talking in the bazaar , and
people always laughing , and the long hard roads and so many houses all
together !
Page 259
The elephant is too sad even to talk . Usually when I see him he is eating ; for he
is always hungry because of his sins in the previous birth . But sometimes I find
him standing alone away among the rocks , swaying from side to side . He is very
...
The elephant is too sad even to talk . Usually when I see him he is eating ; for he
is always hungry because of his sins in the previous birth . But sometimes I find
him standing alone away among the rocks , swaying from side to side . He is very
...
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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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