Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

✍ Joseph Conrad 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 The Floating Press 🌐 UND ⚖ 113 KB

A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter in the hopes of one day inheriting the captain's wealth. He moves to Borneo to run Lingard's trading post there, but while the captain is frittering away his fortune on a hopeless treasure hunt, Almayer's ventures

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

✍ Conrad, Joseph 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2002 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library 🌐 English ⚖ 229 KB 👁 1 views

"Almayer'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

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern R

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

✍ Joseph Conrad 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2002 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library 🌐 English ⚖ 184 KB 👁 1 views

"Almayer'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

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

✍ Joseph Conrad 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 CreateSpace 🌐 English ⚖ 116 KB 👁 1 views

### Review "The real and major contribution here lies in Berthoud's Introduction and in the supporting highly detailed Notes, which impressively document and explicate literary borrowings....Simply, the best, most wide-ranging, and most stimulating discussion on this novel to date. A characteristic

Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

✍ Ben Aaronovitch 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc 🌐 English ⚖ 143 KB 👁 3 views

Tales from the Folly: A rivers of London short story collection

✍ Ben Aaronovitch 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc 🌐 English ⚖ 104 KB 👁 3 views

Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time.Ea