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The Village in the Jungle

Categories: Literature

Countries: Sri Lanka

Fiction

Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.

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The Village in the Jungle

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