Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River BISAC-FIC049000 Published: 09/19/1994

Published: 09/19/1994

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Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River BISAC-FIC049000 Published: 09/19/1994Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, "Conrad's writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was