The first novel by Joseph Conrad, "Almayer's Folly", took him five years to complete and was critically acclaimed after being published in 1895.

The protagonist of the novel is a Dutch merchant Almayer, who is obsessed with an idea of finding the treasures of a pirate Lingard buried in the Malayan jungle. He craves to build a good fortune and to return to Europe. However, his wife and his daughter Nina abandon him, while Almayer himself is destroyed by opium ...

Pretty illustrations by Dmitrii Rybalko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.