Almayer’s Folly (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- First Published: 1895
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: The Dutch East Indies
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Race, Nineteenth century, Ethnic relations, Islands, Greed, Ambition, Netherlands or Dutch people, Houses, mansions, or manors, Gold, Precious metals or stones
- Locales: Dutch East Indies
Characters Discussed
Kaspar Almayer, an unsuccessful Dutch trader in Malaya. His ambition is to take a large profit from a secret gold mine and return with his daughter Nina to Amsterdam. He fails to find the mine, is deserted by his wife, and is disappointed by his daughter’s elopement with a Malay. Friendless and addicted to opium, he lives out the last of his life in an unfinished house named Almayer’s Folly.
Mrs. Almayer, a Malay. Her husband loses the prospering business her adopted father had left her. She despises her husband and all white men. She wants her...
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