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The Village in the Jungle is a novel by Leonard Woolf, published in 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the early years of the 20th century.
- Leonard Woolf
- 1913
- 1913
- Edward Arnold
Nov 4, 2019 · The village was called Beddagama, which means the village in the jungle. It lay in the low country or plains, midway between the sea and the great mountains which seem, far away to the north, to rise like a long wall straight up from the sea of trees.
Nov 4, 2019 · Nov 4, 2019. Most Recently Updated. Nov 5, 2019. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 98 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969
- 14M
- English
- The Village in the Jungle
An outstanding novel set in the early part of the 20th century in a remote Sinhala village deep inside a dense, unforgiving jungle in Ceylon, a village where time stands still but where the tentacles of urban civilisation begin to extend their vice like grip.
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Village in the Jungle. The content of the novel is based on the rural life of the villagers in Beddegama, the story revolves around the family of a father and two daughters who are more used to the jungle than to society, and ultimately come to a tragic end as the prevailing imperialistic.
Sidelined by Leonard Woolf’s involvement in politics after he left the Civil Service, overshadowed by Virginia Woolf's continuous and brilliant achievement as a novelist, The Village in the Jungle (1913) fell from notice in Britain until, by the time its author died in 1969, it was almost forgotten.
May 19, 2004 · The Village In The Jungle. by. Leonard Woolf. Publication date. 1926. Collection. millionbooks; universallibrary. Language. English.
