Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad

Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad

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Conrad's first novel is also the first part of his Malayan trilogy. Set in Borneo against an exotic and ruinous background, the book enacts the final, tragi-comic "anguish of paternity" of the trader Almayer, the colonialist idealist-dreamer and Conrad's first "isolated man".

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Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad

Conrad's first novel is also the first part of his Malayan trilogy. Set in Borneo against an exotic and ruinous background, the book enacts the final, tragi-comic "anguish of paternity" of the trader Almayer, the colonialist idealist-dreamer and Conrad's first "isolated man". As the husband of a Filippino woman and the father of a half-caste daughter, Almayer witnesses his dreams of wealth, conquest and escape being defeated by domestic, social and political schism. The text is here accompanied by an introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and a chronology of Conrad's life and times.
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ISBN 13 9780460876346
ISBN 10 0460876341
Title Almayer's Folly
Author Joseph Conrad
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1995-08-07
Number of pages 252
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.