Crisostomo Ibarra comes home to the Philippines after years in Europe, hoping to marry his childhood love Maria Clara and to open a school in his town. He soon learns how his father died, and finds that the friars and the Civil Guard hold the real power, and that any reformer is branded a heretic and filibuster.
The 1887 novel whose portrait of colonial abuse helped awaken Filipino national feeling, in Charles Derbyshire’s complete translation. Download the free EPUB.
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