Almayer's Folly

[By the way, as an old classic, this novel is available free on-line from various sites such as gutenberg.org] This was Conrad’s first novel. It’s a tale of personal tragedy and colonialism. The setting is on the southern part of the island of Borneo, present-day Indonesia,. formerly the Dutch East......more

No two human beings understand each other. They can understand but their own voices. You wanted me to dream your dreams, to see your own visions—the visions of life amongst the white faces of those who cast me out from their midst in angry contempt. But while you spoke I listened to the voice of......more

UPDATE (2022): So…boring as this book was (see original review below), apparently someone back in 2012 thought it would make a good movie; and that "someone" was a French director that the critics love (so 87% critic's score on Rotten Tomatoes) but audiences - who understand how "entertainment" work......more