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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Multatuli
Born: March 2, 1820
Died: February 19, 1887 (aged 66)
Bio: Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli, was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel Max Havelaar, which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies.
Known for:
- Max Havelaar (1860)
- Woutertje Pieterse
- Walter Pieterse: A Story of Holland
- Millionen-studien (1873)