{"product_id":"almayers-folly-a-story-of-colonial-ambition-and-ruin-hardcover","title":"Almayer's Folly: A Story of Colonial Ambition and Ruin - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlmayer's Folly\u003c\/em\u003e is Joseph Conrad's first novel, a dark story of colonial ambition, delusion, family fracture, and ruin on a remote river in Borneo.\u003c\/strong\u003e Kaspar Almayer, a Dutch trader stranded in the Malay Archipelago, dreams of wealth, status, and escape. He imagines hidden gold, European recognition, and a future grand enough to justify the decaying house that others mock as \"Almayer's Folly.\" But the world around him is not waiting to fulfill his fantasies, and the people closest to him have dreams of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the novel is Almayer's daughter Nina, caught between her father's European ambitions and the Malay world he despises but cannot escape. As trade, politics, romance, betrayal, and racial tension tighten around the family, Conrad turns a story of adventure and treasure-hunting into something more psychologically severe: a study of colonial failure, self-deception, and the human cost of living inside a fantasy of superiority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in Joseph Conrad, classic literary fiction, colonial and postcolonial literature, psychological novels, Southeast Asian settings, and early modernist fiction will find \u003cem\u003eAlmayer's Folly\u003c\/em\u003e an important beginning. First published in 1895, it introduces many of the concerns that would shape Conrad's later work: exile, moral blindness, imperial illusion, divided loyalties, and the uneasy meeting of European ambition with worlds it does not understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377893150957,"sku":"9781515435686","price":34.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/tk7SKdxXrE9781515435686.webp?v=1785619867","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/almayers-folly-a-story-of-colonial-ambition-and-ruin-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}