| Key Details |
| Author: | Multatuli |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| ISBN-10: | 0140445161 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780140445169 |
| Additional Details |
| Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size |
| Height: | 8 in |
| Width: | 5.3 in |
| Thickness: | 0.8 in |
| Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Publisher's NoteOne of the most forceful indictments of colonialism ever written, MAX HAVELAAR 'sent a shiver' through the Dutch nation when it was first published in 1860 and, even after 120 years, it is still capable of arousing strong emotions. It tells the story of a young civil servant in the colonial administration who, in 1856, clashed head-on with his government when he tried to force them to recognize the barbarity and corruption rife in the Dutch colony of Java.
Yet MAX HAVELAAR is more than a polemical tract or autobiographical novel. Its innovative style, superb characterization and, above all, its vitality and pungent satire make it a powerful literary work in its own right. As D.H. Lawrence wrote of it, 'The great dynamic force in and Gogol and in Mark Twain, hate, a passionate honorable hate...'
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