Almayer's Folly
by Joseph Conrad
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A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter in the hopes of one day inheriting the captain's wealth. He moves to Borneo to run Lingard's trading post there, but while the captain is frittering away his fortune on a hopeless treasure hunt, Almayer's ventures fail, one after the other. In the hotpot of isolation, colonialism and frustrated desire, naming Almayer's true folly becomes complicated.
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Fiction, Dutch, Imperialism, Trading companies, Tom Lingard (Fictitious character), Social life and customs, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Indonesia, fiction, English literature, Fathers and daughters, Racially mixed people, Gold mines and mining, Dutch fiction, Roman néerlandais, Sociétés de commerce, Romans, nouvelles, ImpérialismeTimes
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Almayer's folly: a story of an eastern river
1994, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521432057 9780521432054
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The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this soon.
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| August 4, 2013 | Edited by VacuumBot | Updated format 'E-book' to 'eBook' |
| May 9, 2013 | Edited by VacuumBot | Updated format 'eBook' to 'E-book'; Removed author from Edition (author found in Work) |
| April 27, 2011 | Edited by OCLC Bot | Added OCLC numbers. |
| June 24, 2010 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from marc_overdrive MARC record |