A powerful tale of love, inheritance, downfall, and moral reckoning from one of Portugal’s greatest nineteenth-century novelists.
In The Archdeacon’s Granddaughter, Camilo Castelo Branco weaves a dramatic story marked by family secrets, social ambition, spiritual anguish, and the tragic consequences of desire ungoverned by conscience. Set against the moral and religious atmosphere of nineteenth-century Portugal, the novel follows a world in which virtue and corruption, tenderness and cruelty, faith and scandal are constantly at war.
With his unmistakable blend of irony, emotional intensity, and moral insight, Camilo explores the fate of characters trapped by pride, poverty, passion, and inherited guilt. The result is a novel at once intimate and sweeping: a portrait of human weakness, social hypocrisy, and the fragile possibility of redemption.
This English edition presents the complete novel in a carefully prepared translation, preserving the dramatic force, rhetorical elegance, and historical texture of the original Portuguese text. Ideal for readers of classic European literature, Gothic-tinged romance, religious drama, and nineteenth-century fiction.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A powerful tale of love, inheritance, downfall, and moral reckoning from one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelists.In The Archdeacon's Granddaughter, Camilo Castelo Branco weaves a dramatic story marked by family secrets, social ambition, spiritual anguish, and the tragic consequences of desire ungoverned by conscience. Set against the moral and religious atmosphere of nineteenth-century Portugal, the novel follows a world in which virtue and corruption, tenderness and cruelty, faith and scandal are constantly at war.With his unmistakable blend of irony, emotional intensity, and moral insight, Camilo explores the fate of characters trapped by pride, poverty, passion, and inherited guilt. The result is a novel at once intimate and sweeping: a portrait of human weakness, social hypocrisy, and the fragile possibility of redemption.This English edition presents the complete novel in a carefully prepared translation, preserving the dramatic force, rhetorical elegance, and historical texture of the original Portuguese text. Ideal for readers of classic European literature, Gothic-tinged romance, religious drama, and nineteenth-century fiction. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798198434837
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A powerful tale of love, inheritance, downfall, and moral reckoning from one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelists.In The Archdeacon's Granddaughter, Camilo Castelo Branco weaves a dramatic story marked by family secrets, social ambition, spiritual anguish, and the tragic consequences of desire ungoverned by conscience. Set against the moral and religious atmosphere of nineteenth-century Portugal, the novel follows a world in which virtue and corruption, tenderness and cruelty, faith and scandal are constantly at war.With his unmistakable blend of irony, emotional intensity, and moral insight, Camilo explores the fate of characters trapped by pride, poverty, passion, and inherited guilt. The result is a novel at once intimate and sweeping: a portrait of human weakness, social hypocrisy, and the fragile possibility of redemption.This English edition presents the complete novel in a carefully prepared translation, preserving the dramatic force, rhetorical elegance, and historical texture of the original Portuguese text. Ideal for readers of classic European literature, Gothic-tinged romance, religious drama, and nineteenth-century fiction. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798198434837
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