The Village in the Jungle
Published on 1. December 2012
216 pages
978-1-78060-018-5 (ISBN)
Description
This novel set in Ceylon follows the lives of a handful of villagers hacking out a fragile existence in a jungle where indiscriminate growth, indifferent fate and malevolent neighbours constantly threaten to overwhelm them. It is as if Thomas Hardy were immersed in the heat, scent, sensuality and pungent mystery of the tropics. Seven years as a colonial administrator gave Woolf first-hand knowledge of the injustice of colonial rule, and an acute psychological sympathy with the villagers. He skilfully incorporates local story-telling traditions and beliefs into his chilling narrative, to create a book which remains one of the best-loved in Sri Lanka to this day.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78060-018-5 (9781780600185)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Leonard Woolf
The Village in the Jungle
Book
11/2005
Eland Publishing Ltd
€16.50
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Persons
Leonard Sidney Woolf was born in London in 1880. Educated at St Paul's School, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. In 1904 he joined the Civil Service in Ceylon. On his return to England in May 1911 he married Virginia Stephen who was, like her husband, a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group. His first novel, The Village in the Jungle, was published in 1913 followed by Wise Virgins (1914). His other books include Socialism and Co-operation (1921), After the Deluge (1931), Barbarians at the Gate (1939), Principia Politica (1953) and a five-volume memoir. He worked as literary editor of the Nation from 1923-30, as well as for the Hogarth Press, which he co-founded with Virginia in 1917. He died in 1969.
Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Village in the Jungle
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Pearls and Swine
- Pearls and Swine
- Afterword to the 2005 Edition
- About the Author
- Copyright
