Good and Evil, (Paperback)

<p><b>A forgotten Portuguese classic of love, guilt, innocence, and moral reckoning - now available in English.</b></p><p>In <i>Good and Evil</i>, Camilo Castelo Branco, one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelists, weaves a dramatic tale of wounded honor, forbidden love, social judgment, and spiritual redemption. At the center of the novel stands Casimiro Bettancourt, a young man whose passions, misfortunes, and moral trials draw him into a world where appearances deceive, virtue is tested, and the boundary between good and evil is never as simple as society pretends.</p><p>With his characteristic intensity, irony, and psychological insight, Camilo portrays a society governed by pride, reputation, family duty, and religious conscience. Around Casimiro move figures of innocence, ambition, maternal devotion, clerical humility, and aristocratic vanity - each revealing a different face of human nature.</p><p>First published in the nineteenth century, <i>Good and Evil</i> belongs to the rich tradition of Portuguese Romantic fiction, yet its themes remain strikingly modern: the fragility of reputation, the cruelty of public judgment, the redemptive power of compassion, and the moral ambiguity hidden beneath social respectability.</p><p>This edition presents the novel in a carefully prepared English translation, with editorial and translator's notes designed to preserve the literary atmosphere, historical references, and moral complexity of Camilo Castelo Branco's original work.</p><p>For readers of classic European literature, Portuguese fiction, Gothic-tinged romance, and morally charged family dramas, <i>Good and Evil</i> offers a powerful rediscovery of one of Portugal's most important literary voices.</p>

• Good and Evil, (Paperback)
• Author: M Smouch
• ISBN: 9798196576492
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-12
• Page Count: 206