Village in the Jungle

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Historical Fiction, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Leonard Woolf In Year : 1913

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Village in the Jungle

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5, 1
Chapter 5, 2
Chapter 6
Chapter 7, 1
Chapter 7, 2
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twentieth-century. He focuses his story on one poor family in a jungle village as they struggle to survive, not just faced with a very harsh environment but with their own human prejudices, superstitions, jealousies, violence, ignorance, and greed. In the background is the other enemy: the foreign government that controls them but does not really understand or care for these uncivilized, not really human beings. It was an important work because its point of view was sympathetically a native one. JL