Village in the Jungle
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ISBN:
9780195630343
Publication date:
01/06/1997
Paperback
196 pages
Price: 225.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780195630343
Publication date:
01/06/1997
Paperback
196 pages
Leonard Woolf
The theme of this vivid and dramatic novel is man’s struggle against his fellows, fate and nature. It was Woolf’s achievement that, through a profound understanding of the rejects of society, he created a powerful and deeply moving classic.
Rights: World Rights
Leonard Woolf
Description
As a young man, Leonard Woolf spent seven years in the Ceylon Civil Service. He was later to write in his autobiography that the ‘jungle and the people who lived in the Sinhalese jungle villages fascinated, almost obsessed me in Ceylon. They continued to obsess me in London, in Putney of Bloomsbury, and in Cambridge. The Village in the Jungle was a novel in which I tried somehow or other vicariously to live their lives. It was also, in some curious way, the symbol of the anti-imperialism which had been growing upon me more and more in my last years in Ceylon.’
The theme of this vivid and dramatic novel is man’s struggle against his fellows, fate and nature. It was Woolf’s achievement that, through a profound understanding of the rejects of society, he created a powerful and deeply moving classic.
Leonard Woolf
Leonard Woolf
Review
‘The Village in the Jungle is a novel of superbly dispassionate observation, a great novel.’
- Quentin Bell
‘Inadequately acclaimed in England, it is recognized in … Ceylon as the classic that it is.’
- Kingsley Martin
Description
As a young man, Leonard Woolf spent seven years in the Ceylon Civil Service. He was later to write in his autobiography that the ‘jungle and the people who lived in the Sinhalese jungle villages fascinated, almost obsessed me in Ceylon. They continued to obsess me in London, in Putney of Bloomsbury, and in Cambridge. The Village in the Jungle was a novel in which I tried somehow or other vicariously to live their lives. It was also, in some curious way, the symbol of the anti-imperialism which had been growing upon me more and more in my last years in Ceylon.’
The theme of this vivid and dramatic novel is man’s struggle against his fellows, fate and nature. It was Woolf’s achievement that, through a profound understanding of the rejects of society, he created a powerful and deeply moving classic.
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‘The Village in the Jungle is a novel of superbly dispassionate observation, a great novel.’
- Quentin Bell
‘Inadequately acclaimed in England, it is recognized in … Ceylon as the classic that it is.’
- Kingsley Martin
