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Below the huts to the east of the village lay the tank , a large shallow depression
in the jungle . Where the depression was deepest the villagers had raised a long
narrow bund or mound of earth , so that when the rain fell the tank served as a ...
Below the huts to the east of the village lay the tank , a large shallow depression
in the jungle . Where the depression was deepest the villagers had raised a long
narrow bund or mound of earth , so that when the rain fell the tank served as a ...
Page 16
Unlike her brother she was always busy , sweeping the house and compound ,
fetching water from the tank , cooking , and attending to the children . Very soon
after she came to Silindu ' s house she began to talk and think of the children as ...
Unlike her brother she was always busy , sweeping the house and compound ,
fetching water from the tank , cooking , and attending to the children . Very soon
after she came to Silindu ' s house she began to talk and think of the children as ...
Page 28
Yesterday at this hour I saw your Podi Sinho here in the tank , pale and shivering
with fever , and pouring the cold tank water over himself . How should such a
mother keep her children ? All know that you have borne six , and that all are
dead .
Yesterday at this hour I saw your Podi Sinho here in the tank , pale and shivering
with fever , and pouring the cold tank water over himself . How should such a
mother keep her children ? All know that you have borne six , and that all are
dead .
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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 | 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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