Almayer’s Folly (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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: Dutch East Indies
- Principal Characters: Almayer, Mrs. Almayer, Nina, Dain Maroola, Lakamba
- 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
The Story:
By marrying Lingard’s adopted Malay daughter, Almayer had inherited that prosperous merchant’s business and his plans for amassing a huge fortune in gold from rich mines up the Pantai River. Almayer and his wife had one daughter, Nina, a beautiful girl, who had been sent to Singapore, where for ten years she was educated as a European. She returned home to Sambir unexpectedly at the end of that time, for she could not bear to be treated as a half-caste in a white community. Unsuccessful in business, Almayer nursed dim hopes that he could find a gold mine and, his...
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