Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading Company

Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading CompanyA brilliantly inventive fiction that is also a work of burning political outrage, Max Havelaar tells the story of a renegade Dutch colonial administrators ultimately unavailing struggle to end the exploitation of the Indonesian peasantry. Havelaars impassioned expos is framed by the fatuous reflections of an Amsterdam coffee trader, Drystubble, into whose hands it has fallen. Thus a tale of the jungles and villages of Indonesia is interknit with one

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