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Friars and Filipinos

Author
Jose Rizal
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
8 hours 24 minutes
ISBN
9781802567526
Published
18 July 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Colonial Philippines
  • Religious Influence
  • Socio-political Critique
  • Injustice
  • Advocacy for Reform
  • Faith and Power
  • Filipino Resistance
  • Social Transformation
  • Historical Analysis
  • Spanish Friars

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Description

An ilustrado returns from Europe to build a school and marry María Clara; friar power and colonial Manila turn reform into persecution. Rizal’s Noli, cut into English by Frank Gannett as Friars and Filipinos, keeps the novel’s weather — cockpit and convent, sermon and dinner-table war — so clerical dominance is lived story, not abstract indictment.

Author

José Rizal (1861–1896) is the national hero of the Philippines — ophthalmologist, novelist, and martyr of the struggle against Spanish colonial rule. Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo exposed friar power and social injustice with a novelist's eye; essays such as The Indolence of the Filipino answered colonial insult with history. Rizal wrote for reform and died for a nation that claimed him.

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