# The village in the jungle

By Leonard Woolf.

"The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf is a novel published in 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial administrator in British Ceylon. The story follows Silindu, a poor farmer in the village of Beddegama, and his two daughters as they struggle against poverty, disease, superstition, and an unsympathetic colonial system. Ground-breaking for being written from the native rather than colonial perspective, the novel depicts how the family confronts manipulation by village authorities that leads to tragedy and a murder trial. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Imperialism -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Political fiction; Villages -- Fiction; Culture conflict -- Fiction; Colonial administrators -- Fiction; British -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction; Sri Lanka -- Fiction

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- [Village in the Jungle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/14516) by Leonard Woolf (6 h 28 min, English)

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