Max Havelaar, or, The coffee auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
By: Multatuli ; with an introduction by D.H. Lawrence ; translated by Roy Edwards ; afterword by E.M. Beekman.
Series: Library of the Indies
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Colonies -- Oceania -- Fiction.; Culture conflict -- Fiction.; Dutch -- Indonesia -- Fiction.; Java (Indonesia) -- Fiction.
Description: "Based on episodes in the life of Multatuli, the story builds contrapuntally on the opposition between the materialistic coffee broker Drystubble and the idealistic protagonist who is martyred for his struggle against the injustices of the colonial administration."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of: Max Havelaar, of, De koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche handelmaatschappij.