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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 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 ...
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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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