Author

Contributions

  • Nahuys, Alphonse Johan Bernard Horstmar, Baron. - Contributor

Publication

1868 - Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, Scotland

Language

English

Word Count

102,750 words, Guess

Page Count

411 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPZ3.D368 M

Description

**Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company** (Dutch: *Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy*) 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."). (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar))

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  • Max Havelaar: or, The coffee auctions of the Dutch trading company.Edmonston & Douglas1868-01-01
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