Max Havelaar: Of de koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelsmaatschappy

by Multatuli

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Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company 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 twentieth century. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt government system in Java, which was then a Dutch colony. The novel's opening line is famous: "Ik ben makelaar in koffie, en woon op de Lauriergracht, Nº 37." ("I am a coffee broker, and live on the Lauriergracht, Nº 37."). This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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English · Max Havelaar; or, the coffee auctions of the Dutch trading company · source translation · 20 of 21 chapters
Translated by Alphonse Nahuys from Max Havelaar; or, the coffee auctions of the Dutch trading company, Project Gutenberg #70128 (Public domain (Project Gutenberg))
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Max Havelaar: Of de koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelsmaatschappy

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