TY - BOOK AU - Rizal,José AU - Derbyshire,Charles E. TI - The Reign of Greed AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Philippine fiction (Spanish) -- Translations into English KW - Nationalists -- Philippines -- Fiction KW - Philippines -- History -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_filibusterismo; Release date is 2004-01-01; Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Reign of Greed" by José Rizal is a novel written in 1891. This sequel follows Crisóstomo Ibarra, who returns to the Philippines after thirteen years, now disguised as the wealthy jeweler Simoun. Abandoning his earlier hopes for peaceful reform, he plots a violent revolution against Spanish colonial rule. As Simoun manipulates powerful figures and stockpiles weapons, he seeks vengeance and liberation for his oppressed countrymen. The novel's dark tone marks a dramatic shift from its predecessor, reflecting the protagonist's transformation from idealistic reformer to revolutionary conspirator. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10676 ER -