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Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early ...
- Multatuli, D. H. Lawrence, Roy Edwards, E. M. Beekman
- 1860
Sep 1, 1995 · Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Penguin Classics) Paperback – September 1, 1995. Max Havelaar—a Dutch civil servant in Java—burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration.
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- Multatuli, D. H. Lawrence, Roy Edwards, E. M. Beekman
- $17
- Penguin Classics
Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in his own downfall.
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Complete summary of Eduard Douwes Dekker's Max Havelaar. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Max Havelaar.
Mar 5, 2019 · A brilliantly inventive fiction that is also a work of burning political outrage, Max Havelaar tells the story of a renegade Dutch colonial administrator’s ultimately unavailing...
Aug 13, 2019 · What made Max Havelaar so politically charged was Multatuli drawing attention to the suffering of those dominated by colonial rule. Multatuli was considered an extraordinary thinker for his time – he wrote about his experiences with the local population in Indonesia not as their oppressor, but as someone determined to be their ‘saviour ...
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His Max Havelaar became the most famous and most controversial Dutch prose work of all times, translated world-wide into thirty-four languages, amongst which are the Indonesian translation by H.B. Jassin in 1972 and most recently a Korean translation. Today, the novel is as much alive as when it first appeared in 1860.
