O esqueleto: Romance by Camilo Castelo Branco
"O esqueleto: Romance" by Camilo Castelo Branco is a romantic novel published in 1865 that explores adultery and love between people of vastly different ages. Forty-year-old Nicolau abandons his French lover Margarida to marry his sixteen-year-old cousin Beatriz. As their marriage crumbles, both spouses pursue secret affairs—Nicolau returns to Margarida while Beatriz meets with young Rafael. When Beatriz's father discovers the betrayal, he begins strict surveillance, setting tragic events into motion that
will only be fully revealed years later. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 37021057 |
| Title | O esqueleto: Romance |
| Original Publication | Portugal: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira,1902. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Esqueleto |
| Credits | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 58.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | Portuguese |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Portuguese fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 68932 |
| Release Date | Sep 8, 2022 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 19, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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