Max Havelaar, or The Coffee Sales of the Netherlands Trading Company

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**Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company** (Dutch: *Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy*) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), 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. The novel's opening line is famous: "Ik ben makelaar in koffie, en woon op de Lauriergracht, Nº 37." ("I am a coffee broker, and live on the Lauriergracht, Nº 37."). (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar))

subjects: Colonies,  Culture conflict,  Dutch,  Fiction,  Coffee industry,  Politics and government,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, satire,  Fiction, biographical,  Indonesia, fiction,  Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij. [from old catalog],  Manuscripts,  Facsimiles,  Netherlands, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Traductions françaises,  Littérature néerlandaise,  Fiction, historical, general,  History,  Colonies--oceania--fiction,  Culture conflict--fiction,  Dutch--indonesia--fiction,  Dutch fiction,  Dutch fiction--indonesia,  Persona (literature),  Pt5829.m3 e3 1987,  839.3/135,  Sea stories,  Whaling

People: Multatuli

Places: Indonesia,  Java (Indonesia),  Oceania,  East Indies,  Netherlands

Times: 19th century,  1798-1942