Pre-Owned The Village in the Jungle (Paperback) by Leonard Woolf

from kaitanya64

Set 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 particularly hard and short, the psychological and social effects of poverty have universal qualities. While...

from olderreads

At first I thought Leonard Woolf was just riding the coat tails of his wife, Virginia, when it came to his writing a book - well low and behold - I found it to be a magnificent piece of work. It opens your eyes to how ignorance can affect people and society as a whole. I highly recommend reading ...

from Steve38

Dear 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 the ex-colonial civil servant Leonard Woolf. It is more interesting as an imaginative exercise in w...

from starbox

"Always evil is coming into this house from the jungle", August 31, 2014 This review is from: The Village in the Jungle (Paperback) An engrossing tale, inspired by the author's time as assistant governor in the east of Sri Lanka. Set in a small village, it concerns the taciturn loner, Silindu, an...

from kaitanya64

Set 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 particularly hard and short, the psychological and social effects of poverty have universal qualities. While...