Almayer’s Folly
by Joseph Conrad
255 pages~4 hrs
“In the heart of the wild, some dreams are more dangerous than the jungle itself.”
Deep in the suffocating jungles of Borneo, Kaspar Almayer clings to a fading dream of fortune to secure his daughter’s future. In Joseph Conrad's haunting tale of colonial decay and psychological obsession, one man's pursuit of gold threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.
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