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The Queen of the Unknown
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A moonlit river. A woman in white, playing the harp from a drifting boat. A hidden cave, a whispered legend, and a queen who seems to belong to no ordinary world.
In The Queen of the Unknown, EmÃlia Freitas blends Gothic mystery, romantic obsession, social critique, and visionary fantasy into a singular novel of secret identities and hidden power. When the young lawyer Edmundo becomes fascinated by the enigmatic woman known as the Ill-Fated One, his curiosity draws him into a labyrinth of illusions, coded messages, disguises, and revelations. Beneath the novel's haunting atmosphere lies something even more daring: a female-led utopian order devoted to justice, mercy, and resistance against cruelty.
By turns lyrical, uncanny, political, and philosophical, this pioneering Brazilian classic offers readers a rare literary experience-part mystery, part feminist fantasy, part spiritual allegory. This edition presents the complete English translation, inviting modern readers to rediscover one of the most original works of nineteenth-century Brazilian literature. The novel was published in 1899 and is widely regarded as a pioneering Brazilian fantasy/speculative work centered on a women-led utopian society.
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