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Page 73
The Malay women are before all others in beauty, very fair, with eyes shaped like
pomegranate seeds. They are Mohammedan people, and no Sinhalese can
approach their women; for the men are very jealous, and also strong and fearless
.
The Malay women are before all others in beauty, very fair, with eyes shaped like
pomegranate seeds. They are Mohammedan people, and no Sinhalese can
approach their women; for the men are very jealous, and also strong and fearless
.
Page 147
Her face and form would have been remarkable even in a town : to find her
among the squalid women of so squalid a village astonished him. He wanted a
woman to live with him ; he was always wanting a woman; and it would be far
more ...
Her face and form would have been remarkable even in a town : to find her
among the squalid women of so squalid a village astonished him. He wanted a
woman to live with him ; he was always wanting a woman; and it would be far
more ...
Page 155
And there are houses, very high, as high as the hill at Beragama, full of white
Mahatmayas and their women, always coming and going from the ships. How
many times have I stood outside when a boy and watched them, always laughing
and ...
And there are houses, very high, as high as the hill at Beragama, full of white
Mahatmayas and their women, always coming and going from the ships. How
many times have I stood outside when a boy and watched them, always laughing
and ...
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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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afraid Agent Hamadoru aiya Aiyo Amara Devi anger angry Appochchi Arachchi asked Babehami Babun Beddagama began Beragama brother Buddha buffalo called charm child cloth Colombo compound daughter deer devil elephant evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando fever fool girl give grain hami hang headman hear heard Hinni Hinnihami hunter judge jungle Kamburupitiya kapurala Karlinahami kill knew Korala Mahatmaya kunji kurakkan kurunies laughed leave leopard listen live looked magistrate Malay months morning Mudalali Nanchohami never night path peon pilgrims prison Punchi Appu Punchi Menika Punchirala rain Ratemahatmaya rice Rodiya round sanyasi silence Silindu Sinhalese slowly squatted stood strange talk Tamils tank tell temple thing thought tired told took track trees trouble vedda vederala village walked watched wife wild woman women words yakka Yakkini yakko
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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