Almayer's Folly
A Story of an Eastern River
1st Edition
Published on 18. August 1994
978-1-316-02243-6 (ISBN)
Description
Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folley recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonised East Indies through Joseph Conrad's story of Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his loss of both his daughter of mixed race to her native lover and his dream of finding enough gold to return to Amsterdam in triumph. The introduction gives the history of the composition over almost five years as Conrad went to the Congo, Australia, the Ukraine, Belgium, Switzerland, and France as a seaman and on holiday. The novel has suffered seven layers of unauthorised intervention by typists and publishers, as set out in the essay on the text and the apparatus. The notes explain Malay terms and historical references, and there are two regional maps. This is the text of Almayer's Folley, established through modern textual scholarship, as Conrad would have like it to have appeared in 1895.
Reviews / Votes
"...Almayer's Folly remains a provocative literary document, both for the psychologically compelling story it tells and the artistic story it foretells." English Literature in Transition 1880-1920More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 Maps; 2 Halftones, unspecified; 2 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, unspecified; 2 Line drawings, black and white
File size
33,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-316-02243-6 (9781316022436)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Joseph Conrad | David Leon Higdon | Floyd Eugene Eddleman
Almayer's Folly
A Story of an Eastern River
Book
08/1994
Cambridge University Press
€150.10
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Content
List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River; The texts: an essay, Almayer's Folly; The author's note; The Cambridge text; Apparatus; Rejected page of manuscript: Chapter 11; Notes.
