By Joseph Conrad,David Leon Higdon,Floyd Eugene Eddleman

ISBN-10: 0521432057

ISBN-13: 9780521432054

Set in japanese Borneo in the course of the Eighteen Eighties, Almayer's Folley recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonised East Indies via Joseph Conrad's tale of Kaspar Almayer's own tragedy: his lack of either his daughter of combined race to her local lover and his dream of discovering sufficient gold to come to Amsterdam in triumph. The advent offers the background of the composition over nearly 5 years as Conrad went to the Congo, Australia, the Ukraine, Belgium, Switzerland, and France as a seaman and on vacation. the unconventional has suffered seven layers of unauthorised intervention via typists and publishers, as set out within the essay at the textual content and the equipment. The notes clarify Malay phrases and historic references, and there are neighborhood maps. this can be the textual content of Almayer's Folley, proven via sleek textual scholarship, as Conrad might have love it to have seemed in 1895.

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