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Page 36
The headman took the meat in silence , and hung it up in the house . He fetched a chew of betel and gave it to Silindu . The two men then squatted down , one on each side of the door . For a long time neither spoke : their chewing was ...
The headman took the meat in silence , and hung it up in the house . He fetched a chew of betel and gave it to Silindu . The two men then squatted down , one on each side of the door . For a long time neither spoke : their chewing was ...
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She watched in silence the new house being put up , and she watched in silence Punchi Menika leave the old hut for the new . She felt as if she were losing something ; that her sister was going away from her , and that her life had ...
She watched in silence the new house being put up , and she watched in silence Punchi Menika leave the old hut for the new . She felt as if she were losing something ; that her sister was going away from her , and that her life had ...
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The girl had yielded herself to him in silence . In the long journey together through the jungle he had , without success , tried many methods of breaking or bending her spirit . But he had failed : his jeers and his irony , his anger ...
The girl had yielded herself to him in silence . In the long journey together through the jungle he had , without success , tried many methods of breaking or bending her spirit . But he had failed : his jeers and his irony , his anger ...
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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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