The tale of a man\'s inability to escape his self-delusion and the tragic results that ensue, Almayer\'s Folly unfolds with the lush prose and keen psychological insights for which its author is renowned.
Only his daughter, Nina, brightens Almayer\'s embittered marriage to a Malayan, and he dreams of.
Set in nineteenth-century Borneo, the novel recounts the brief rise and protracted fall of Kaspar Almayer, a Dutch merchant who has struggled for 25 years to practice his trade in the jungle.
The tale of a man\'s inability to escape his self-delusion and the tragic results that ensue, Almayer\'s Folly unfolds with the lush prose and keen psychological insights for which its author is renowned