Max Havelaar (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781479265107)

"Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company" is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to play 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 a Dutch colony at the time. Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 - 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).

Author: Alex Struik, Multatuli
ISBN-10: 1479265101
ISBN-13: 9781479265107
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.70d