The Village in the Jungle

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf. Read in English by Danielle Cartwright; Jim Locke 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 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (177MB)

Directors & creators

Leonard Woolf

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;poverty; colonialism; social injustice

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