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Page 90
Often they had to go all day without finding a pool or a well with water in it . For twelve hours every day the sun beat down upon them fiercely ; the quivering heat from the white roads beat up into their faces and ...
Often they had to go all day without finding a pool or a well with water in it . For twelve hours every day the sun beat down upon them fiercely ; the quivering heat from the white roads beat up into their faces and ...
Page 258
He thinks there are elephants on the main road I suppose . ... I would rather drive a bull along the road than him . ... This old man was one of those wanderers whom one meets from time to time in villages , upon the roads , or even ...
He thinks there are elephants on the main road I suppose . ... I would rather drive a bull along the road than him . ... This old man was one of those wanderers whom one meets from time to time in villages , upon the roads , or even ...
Page 271
Along the road as you go - wherever you are going — to the prison or to the hangingrepeat the holy words many times . In that way you will acquire merit . Also meditate on you sins , the sin of killing , the deer and pig which you have ...
Along the road as you go - wherever you are going — to the prison or to the hangingrepeat the holy words many times . In that way you will acquire merit . Also meditate on you sins , the sin of killing , the deer and pig which you have ...
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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 |
| Publisher | Hansa, 1972 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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