# Max Havelaar;

Author: Multatuli, 1820-1887; Nahuys, Alphonse [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70128

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Max+Havelaar%3B+Multatuli&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I am a coffee-broker, and live at No. 37 Laurier Canal, Amsterdam. I am not accustomed to write novels or works of that kind; therefore it took me a long time before I could resolve to order a few extra quires of paper and begin this book, which you, dear reader, have just taken in hand, and which you must finish, whether you are a coffee-broker or anything else. Not only that I never wrote anything that resembled a novel, but I even do not like to read such things, because I am a man of business. For many years I have asked myself what is the use of such works, and I am astonished at the impudence with which many a poet or novelist dares to tell you stories which never happened, and ofte...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/max-havelaar-70128/chapters/10/index.md)