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Page 55
The woman is right , ' Babehami said angrily to Babun . You cannot bring this
woman to the house . I will take no other woman . I have watched her there about
the compound . She is fair and gentle . She is unlike the other women of this
village ...
The woman is right , ' Babehami said angrily to Babun . You cannot bring this
woman to the house . I will take no other woman . I have watched her there about
the compound . She is fair and gentle . She is unlike the other women of this
village ...
Page 73
The Malay women are before all others in beauty , very fair , with eyes shaped
like pomegranate seeds . They are ... seeds , shining beneath the cloths which
covered their head - he was very troubled , and longed to have a Malay woman .
The Malay women are before all others in beauty , very fair , with eyes shaped
like pomegranate seeds . They are ... seeds , shining beneath the cloths which
covered their head - he was very troubled , and longed to have a Malay woman .
Page 170
It is long ago and about a woman . A young man hot after a woman ! What use is
it ? Send for him and be friends . ” • The Mahatmaya is very good to us . ' I was
wrong , brother . I say it to you myself . I used shameful words to you . But that
was ...
It is long ago and about a woman . A young man hot after a woman ! What use is
it ? Send for him and be friends . ” • The Mahatmaya is very good to us . ' I was
wrong , brother . I say it to you myself . I used shameful words to you . But that
was ...
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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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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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