Almayer's Folly (Version 3)
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political activities, learned and read French early, and did not speak a word of English until his late teens. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that when Conrad came to write this, his first novel, it centred on the pain of having a contested sense of identity, the experience of having to choose, in the midst of argument and derision, whether one was really 'this or that'. The Almayer of the story is a morose and hapless trader of Dutch extraction, settled in shambolic poverty on a river in Borneo. He dreams of finding gold inland and taking his mixed-race daughter Nina triumphantly to the Netherlands, where neither of them has ever been. Nina and her strong-willed Filipina mother, however, prove to have quite different loyalties and a quite different plan — though this plan, in turn, soon appears to come unstuck. (Summary by Peter Dann)
Genre(s): Published 1800 -1900
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Chapter 1 | Peter Dann |
00:32:32 |
Play 02 | Chapter 2 | Peter Dann |
00:25:30 |
Play 03 | Chapter 3 | Peter Dann |
00:28:14 |
Play 04 | Chapter 4 | Peter Dann |
00:23:09 |
Play 05 | Chapter 5 | Peter Dann |
00:29:51 |
Play 06 | Chapter 6 | Peter Dann |
00:28:15 |
Play 07 | Chapter 7 | Peter Dann |
00:33:34 |
Play 08 | Chapter 8 | Peter Dann |
00:37:49 |
Play 09 | Chapter 9 | Peter Dann |
00:38:46 |
Play 10 | Chapter 10 | Peter Dann |
00:35:52 |
Play 11 | Chapter 11 | Peter Dann |
00:43:22 |
Play 12 | Chapter 12 | Peter Dann |
00:46:39 |