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Page 14
But though he feared it , he loved it in a strange , unconscious way , in the same
unconscious way in which the wild buffalo loves the wallow , and the leopard his
lair among the rocks . Silent , inert , and sullen he worked in the chena or ...
But though he feared it , he loved it in a strange , unconscious way , in the same
unconscious way in which the wild buffalo loves the wallow , and the leopard his
lair among the rocks . Silent , inert , and sullen he worked in the chena or ...
Page 151
But it is a great evil to live in a strange place and among strangers . Fernando
laughed . An evil you call it ! But how many have got wealth and fortune by going
to strange places ! Have you not heard of Maha Potana ? Many years ago it was
all ...
But it is a great evil to live in a strange place and among strangers . Fernando
laughed . An evil you call it ! But how many have got wealth and fortune by going
to strange places ! Have you not heard of Maha Potana ? Many years ago it was
all ...
Page 262
Strange men , and they do strange things . Thieving , stabbing , killing , cultivating
paddy . I do not cultivate paddy , nor do I thieve or kill . I am mad perhaps . But
very often it is they who seem to me to want but a little to be mad . All this doing ...
Strange men , and they do strange things . Thieving , stabbing , killing , cultivating
paddy . I do not cultivate paddy , nor do I thieve or kill . I am mad perhaps . But
very often it is they who seem to me to want but a little to be mad . All this doing ...
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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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aiya Aiyo Arachchi asked Babehami Babun became began bring brother brought called carrying charm chena child clear cloth comes compound court crop daughter dead deer devil died evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando followed fool girl give given Hamadoru hand hang head headman hear heard Hinnihami hunter interpreter judge jungle Kamburupitiya Karlinahami kill knew Korala laughed leave lies listen live looked Mahatmaya mind months morning mother Mudalali never night once passed path perhaps prison Punchi Menika Punchirala rain rice road round seemed seen side silence Silindu slowly speak squatted stand stood strange talk tell temple thing thought told took track trees trouble true turned understand vederala village voice waited walked watched wife wild wind woman women
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Village in the Jungle |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0701202564, 9780701202569 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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