The Reign of Greed: El Filibusterismo

Thirteen years after the events of the first book, Ibarra, the young reformer of the first book, returns to Manila disguised as Simoun, a rich jeweller, and feeds the colony's corruption to push it toward a rising. José Rizal wrote it in Ghent in 1891, paying the printer in instalments as the money came; five years later the Spanish authorities shot him. The Philippines read it as the sequel that stopped pretending reform was possible.

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Oversættere: Charles E. Derbyshire

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E-bog: 16. september 2026