![]() ![]() In the meantime, another boy, Stern, settles into his new job at Droogstoppel’s company. Droogstoppel says he can’t help Scarfman with publication, but he will give the boy a job at his company. Knowing that Droogstoppel has money and connections, he wonders if he could help him get published. Scarfman is a devoted writer who dreams about seeing his work in print one day. One day, Droogstoppel runs into a boy called Scarfman. He thinks that novel writing is a lucrative business and it will help him make some extra income. He isn’t a novelist and he hasn’t written a book before, but he plans to write a book about the coffee auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, from which the book gets its name. ![]() When the book begins, narrator Batavus Droogstoppel is a coffee broker living in Amsterdam. His experience working in the Dutch East Indies informed his work. ![]() Dekker was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical writing style. Historians and critics credit the book with radically overhauling how the Dutch government implemented colonial policy across the Dutch East Indies in the late 19th century. Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1860), a historical novel by Eduard Douwes “Multatuli” Dekker, follows a Dutchman who fights against the corrupt Dutch government and its poor colonial policies. ![]()
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