TY - BOOK AU - Conrad,Joseph TI - Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River AV - PR PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Dutch -- Borneo -- Fiction KW - Didactic fiction KW - Imperialism -- Fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Trading companies -- Fiction KW - Lingard, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction KW - Borneo -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almayer%27s_Folly; Release date is 1996-11-01; Transcribed from the 1915 T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. edition by David Price; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River" by Joseph Conrad is a novel published in 1895. Set in the Borneo jungle, it follows Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer, who dreams of finding hidden gold and building wealth. Married to a native Malayan woman with a mixed-heritage daughter Nina, Almayer's obsessive pursuit of riches leads to tragedy when a Malayan prince arrives and falls in love with Nina. The story explores colonialism, family loyalty, and the devastating consequences of impossible dreams. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/720 ER -