Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.
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The Village in the Jungle
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Leonard Woolf's Ceylon
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Sir Kingsley Amis
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Hilda Doolittle
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Siegfried Sassoon
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