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The Black Doctor's Daughter
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ISBN13: 9798199860185
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A haunting nineteenth-century Portuguese novel of love, injustice, race, pride, and moral endurance.
First published in 1864, The Black Doctor's Daughter is one of Camilo Castelo Branco's powerful romantic novels, combining social criticism with emotional intensity and a deeply human portrait of suffering. At its center is Albertina, the daughter of a learned Black Brazilian jurist living in Portugal, whose destiny becomes entangled with forbidden love, paternal authority, social prejudice, and the harsh judgments of respectable society.
First published in 1864, The Black Doctor's Daughter is one of Camilo Castelo Branco's powerful romantic novels, combining social criticism with emotional intensity and a deeply human portrait of suffering. At its center is Albertina, the daughter of a learned Black Brazilian jurist living in Portugal, whose destiny becomes entangled with forbidden love, paternal authority, social prejudice, and the harsh judgments of respectable society.
Through Albertina's story, Camilo explores the conflict between love and obedience, mercy and pride, freedom and reputation. Written with the author's characteristic irony, moral force, and dramatic sensitivity, the novel moves between intimate confession, social commentary, religious reflection, and passionate narrative.
This English edition brings a classic of Portuguese literature to new readers, preserving the emotional richness, rhetorical elegance, and historical atmosphere of the original work. For readers of European classics, romantic fiction, social novels, and nineteenth-century literature, The Black Doctor's Daughter offers a compelling portrait of a world where private virtue struggles against public cruelty.
This English edition brings a classic of Portuguese literature to new readers, preserving the emotional richness, rhetorical elegance, and historical atmosphere of the original work. For readers of European classics, romantic fiction, social novels, and nineteenth-century literature, The Black Doctor's Daughter offers a compelling portrait of a world where private virtue struggles against public cruelty.
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