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The village in the jungle : a novel / by Leonard Woolf ; with an afterword by Christopher Ondaatje.
- Title
- The village in the jungle : a novel / by Leonard Woolf ; with an afterword by Christopher Ondaatje.
- Author
- Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969
- Publication
- London : Eland, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6045.O68 V54 2005 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Ondaatje, Christopher
- Description
- 209 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A village in the jungle: 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.
- Pearls and swine: In this story, the narrator is on a week’s holiday in a "large gaudy uncomfortably comfortable hotel" in Torquay. It’s evening, and the male guests have gathered in the "smoking rooms" and are drinking before going to bed. The subject at hand is colonialism, "Indian unrest" and how the colonies should be "managed." Each man has his own theory of what should be done, and pomposity, ignorance, and hypocrisy are thick in the air that night, until finally a man who’s lived in Ceylon for years weighs in.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- "First published by Edward Arnold Limited 1913"--T.p. verso.
- Includes author's short story: Pearls and Swine.
- Publisher's advertisements at end.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A Village in the jungle -- Pearls and Swine -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 0907871291
- OCLC
- 64547908
- SCSB-11413304
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library