Fiction · 1895
Almayer’s Folly
A Story of an Eastern River
Kaspar Almayer, a Dutch trader stranded in a remote Borneo river settlement, has staked everything on a doomed scheme to find a fabled treasure and on his hopes for his mixed-race daughter Nina, who instead falls in love with a Balinese prince and abandons her father entirely for a world he can't follow her into.
Joseph Conrad published Almayer's Folly in 1895, his first novel, begun while he was still a merchant sailor and drawing on his own years navigating the rivers of Borneo.
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1857–1924 · Victorian
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in what is now Ukraine, to Polish parents exiled for their politics. He went to sea at sixteen, served in French and then British merchant ships for twenty years, rising to master, and began to write in English — his third language — in his late thirties. Almayer’s Folly (1895), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911) are among his works. He lived in the south of England, mostly in Kent, from 1896 until his death.
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