Max Havelaar by Multatuli
"Max Havelaar" by Multatuli is a novel published in 1860 that exposed the brutal realities of Dutch colonial rule in Java. When idealistic colonial administrator Max Havelaar attempts to fight a corrupt system exploiting Indonesian farmers, his story becomes a searing indictment of imperial power. Framed through the cynical perspective of a Dutch coffee broker and his romantic apprentice, the novel builds toward a direct plea to the Dutch king, ultimately sparking
reforms that would reshape colonial policy and inspire future independence movements. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Multatuli, 1820-1887 |
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| Translator | Spohr, Wilhelm, 1868-1959 |
| Title | Max Havelaar |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar |
| Credits |
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Culture conflict -- Fiction |
| Subject | Colonies -- Oceania -- Fiction |
| Subject | Dutch -- Indonesia -- Fiction |
| Subject | Java (Indonesia) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Persona (Literature) |
| Subject | Coffee industry -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 31527 |
| Release Date | Mar 6, 2010 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 9, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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