Multatuli





Multatuli

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born
March 02, 1820 in Amesterdam, Netherlands

died
February 19, 1887

gender
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Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).


Average rating: 3.52 · 803 ratings · 65 reviews · 35 distinct works
Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee...
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Ideën, Volume 4
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Verzamelde Werken Van Multa...
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Brieven van Multatuli
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Duizend En Enige Hoofdstukk...
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More books by Multatuli…
“I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness.”
Multatuli, The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables

“The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.”
Multatuli, The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables

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