Max Havelaar

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English-language translations of
Max Havelaar (1860)
by Eduard Douwes Dekker

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.

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English-language translations of Max Havelaar include: