Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

Joseph Conrad , Edited by David Leon Higdon , Floyd Eugene Eddleman

ISBN 10: 0521432057 / ISBN 13: 9780521432054

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1994

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258 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521432057
• ISBN 13: 9780521432054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folly recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonized East Indies through Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his loss of both his daughter to her native lover and his dream of finding gold. This edition presents Joseph Conrad's first novel freed from seven layers of publishers' and typists' corruptions. Complete textual and contextual histories, full annotation and two regional maps are provided. This is the text, established through modern textual scholarship, as Conrad would have liked it to have appeared in 1895.

Book Description

Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folly recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonized East Indies. This edition, first published in 1994, presents Joseph Conrad's first novel freed from seven layers of publishers' and typists' corruptions. Complete textual and contextual histories, full annotation and two regional maps are provided.