WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java cover

The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java

Chapter 35: Encoding
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

The narrative follows a colonial administration in Java where rigid European order encounters a local cultural world that resists control. An ambiguous, unseen influence gradually produces disruptions: administrative errors, illness, fracturing relationships and moral unease among officials. Detailed, atmospheric descriptions of landscape, household life and ceremonial routine build a creeping sense of estrangement as institutional authority weakens. The plot emphasizes close observation of social interactions and psychological decline rather than offering a clear supernatural explanation, leaving the resolution ambiguous.

Colophon

Availability

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org.

This eBook is produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.

The Dutch original of this ebook, De stille kracht, is available from the DBNL. Note that the original has a different way of numbering chapters. Chapters in this edition match with sections in the original.

Scans of this work are available from the Internet Archive (US 1, US 2, UK). This edition was prepared from the UK edition.

Encoding

Revision History

  • 2010-12-22 Started.

External References

This Project Gutenberg eBook contains external references. These links may not work for you.

Corrections

The following corrections have been applied to the text:

Page Source Correction
20 Shakspeare Shakespeare
48 Djokjokarta Djokjakarta
64 paradisial paradisal
67 enchanced enhanced
84 Surubaya Surabaya
88 figners fingers
137 inter-polated interpolated
180 entrace entrance
185 apppear appear
188, 191 pangeran pangéran
227 . ?
234, 234 [Not in source] .
237 [Deleted]
241 Doddy Doddie
242 get got
263 soveran sovereign
266 centring centering