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Page 4
The trees are stunted and twisted by the drought , by the thin and sandy soil , by
the dry wind . They are scabrous , thorny trees , with grey leaves whitened by the
clouds of dust which the wind perpetually sweeps over them : their trunks are ...
The trees are stunted and twisted by the drought , by the thin and sandy soil , by
the dry wind . They are scabrous , thorny trees , with grey leaves whitened by the
clouds of dust which the wind perpetually sweeps over them : their trunks are ...
Page 7
The wind from the north - east drops , the rain fails ; for a month a great stillness
lies over the jungle ; the sun looks down from a cloudless sky ; the burning air is
untempered by a breath of wind . It is spring in the jungle , a short and fiery spring
...
The wind from the north - east drops , the rain fails ; for a month a great stillness
lies over the jungle ; the sun looks down from a cloudless sky ; the burning air is
untempered by a breath of wind . It is spring in the jungle , a short and fiery spring
...
Page 8
Only the elephants remember the great rivers , which lie far away , and whose
banks they left when the rains came ; as soon as the south - west wind begins to
blow , they make for the rivers again . But the deer and the pig have forgotten the
...
Only the elephants remember the great rivers , which lie far away , and whose
banks they left when the rains came ; as soon as the south - west wind begins to
blow , they make for the rivers again . But the deer and the pig have forgotten the
...
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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 | 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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