Almayer's Folly

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 alm...