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The Reign of Greed
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The Reign of Greed

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Presumed dead after a prison escape led to a shootout with authorities, Crisóstomo Ibarra returns home after thirteen years in hiding. Using the guise of Simoun, a corrupt merchant, he attempts to incite a rebellion against imperial Spanish forces in order to free the Philippines and its people from terror. The Reign of Greed is a novel by José Rizal.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781513223407
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
Format noteDRM Adobe
PublisherMint Editions
Publishing date08/06/2021
SeriesMint Editions (Voices From API)
Pages296 pages
LanguageEnglish
File size3919 Kbytes
Article no.10147062
CatalogsVC
Data source no.4412585
Product groupBelletristik
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José Rizal (1861-1896) was a Filipino poet, novelist, sculptor, painter, and national hero. Born in Calamba, Rizal was raised in a mestizo family of eleven children who lived and worked on a farm owned by Dominican friars. As a boy, he excelled in school and won several poetry contests. At the University of Santo Tomas, he studied philosophy and law before devoting himself to ophthalmology upon hearing of his mother's blindness. In 1882, he traveled to Madrid to study medicine before moving to Germany, where he gave lectures on Tagalog. In Heidelberg, while working with pioneering ophthalmologist Otto Becker, Rizal finished writing his novel Touch Me Not (1887). Now considered a national epic alongside its sequel The Reign of Greed (1891), Touch Me Not is a semi-autobiographical novel that critiques the actions of the Catholic Church and Spanish Empire in his native Philippines. In 1892, he returned to Manila and founded La Liga Filipina, a secret organization dedicated to social reform. Later that year, he was deported to Zamboanga province, where he built a school, hospital, and water supply system. During this time, the Katipunan, a movement for liberation from Spanish rule, began to take shape in Manila, eventually resulting in the Philippine Revolution in 1896. For his writing against colonialism and association with active members of Katipunan, Rizal was arrested while traveling to Cuba via Spain. On December 30, 1896, he was executed by firing squad on the outskirts of Manila and buried in an unmarked grave.