“One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture”
Multatuli book Max Havelaar
Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Quotes from bookMax Havelaar
MultatuliOriginal title Max Havelaar, of de koffie-veilingen der Nederlandse Handel-Maatschappij, of de koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy (Dutch, 1860)
Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company is an 1860 novel by Multatuli , which played 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 then a Dutch colony.
