This is a Sinhala abridgement of The Children of the New Forest, the novel by Captain Marryat, prepared by Lal Premanath De Mel and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The whole text is in Sinhala — there is no English in it — so an international buyer should order it only if Sinhala is read in the household.
The translation is shortened rather than complete, and it is written in deliberately simple language intended for school students. That shapes what the book is: a reader's introduction to Marryat's story for a Sinhala-speaking child or young teenager, rather than a scholarly rendering of the English original for adult readers.
It will suit families abroad keeping up a child's Sinhala reading, teachers looking for accessible fiction in translation, and collectors of Sinhala editions of English literature. Readers who want Marryat in full will want the English text instead.
- Author: Lal Premanath De Mel
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552101229
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