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The Regicide
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The Regicide, Camilo Castelo Branco transforms one of Portugal's most dramatic historical episodes into a powerful novel of conspiracy, vengeance, political violence, and tragic destiny.
Set against the tense atmosphere of eighteenth-century Portugal, the novel follows the forces gathering around a plot against royal power, where private grief, wounded honor, ambition, fear, and fanaticism converge with the brutal machinery of state repression. With his characteristic intensity, irony, and psychological insight, Castelo Branco gives life to a world of nobles, servants, priests, conspirators, informers, and victims caught in the shadow of the Portuguese court.
More than a historical novel, The Regicide is a meditation on justice, power, loyalty, and the moral cost of political revenge. The narrative moves between intimate suffering and public catastrophe, revealing how individual passions can be absorbed by the violence of history.
This edition presents the complete English translation of O Regicida, preserving the author's historical notes and the dramatic force of Camilo's nineteenth-century prose. A compelling work for readers of classic literature, historical fiction, Portuguese history, and European political drama.
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