Almayer's Folly

ISBN-13: 9781542368599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 250 str.

Joseph Conrad;Sir Angels

Opis

Almayer's Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. He is a white European, married to a native Malayan; they have one daughter named Nina. He fails to find the goldmine, and comes home saddened. Previously, he had heard that the British were to conquer the Pantai River, and he had built a large, lavish house near where he resided at the time, in order to welcome the invading country to the native land.