Isbn: 9798170315369 - the regicide’s daughter: a historical romance — a new english translation (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published in Lisbon in 1875, Camilo Castelo Branco's The Regicide's Daughter isa historical romance of vengeance, inherited disgrace, political violence, and>Angela, the daughter of Domingos Leite Pereira, grows up under the shadow of afather condemned as a regicide and a mother marked by scandal, exile, and war.Around her, the old wounds of the Restoration era remain alive: a grandfatherdemands justice for his executed son; a wealthy New Christian attempts to repaira tragedy he believes he helped set in motion; and Maria Isabel, separated from>Camilo combines family tragedy with corrosive satire of royal power, socialhypocrisy, inherited honor, religious persecution, and the machinery of publicjudgment. The result is a novel in which revenge is only the beginning of themoral reckoning, and in which the final question is whether love can resist the>This edition presents the complete novel in modern, readable English whilepreserving its historical register, authorial irony, letters, documentarypassages, and the unusual chapter numbering of the 1875 printing.…