Project Gutenberg 2014-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 81 Herculano, Alexandre 1810 1877 Herculano, Alejandro Carvalho e Araujo, Alexandre Herculano de Araujo, Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e De Carvalho e Araújo, Alexandre Herculano Herculano, A. (Alexandre) Eurico, o presbytero Reading ease score: 48.2 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by Rita Farinha, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "Eurico, o presbytero" by Alexandre Herculano is a historical novel written in the mid-19th century. The tale centers around the character Eurico, a young priest of Gothic descent, who experiences a deep internal struggle due to his unfulfilled love for Hermengarda and the burdens of celibacy imposed by his sacred duties. Set against the backdrop of the declining Gothic Empire in Spain, the narrative explores themes of solitude, unrequited love, and the clash between spiritual aspirations and earthly desires. At the start of the novel, Herculano introduces the tumultuous state of the Visigothic society and the personal turmoil of Eurico. The priest is depicted as a tormented soul, emerging from a powerful but painful love for Hermengarda, which has led him to seek solace in religion. As he grapples with his isolation and the expectations of his clerical role, Eurico’s character takes shape against a rich historical context, revealing deeper insights into his reverie, regrets, and aspirations that reflect the broader moral decay of a nation on the brink of collapse. Through rich, evocative language, the opening sets the stage for a profound exploration of personal and national identity in an era marked by strife and transformation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) pt Visigoths -- Spain -- History -- Fiction Celibacy -- Catholic Church -- Fiction Spain -- History -- Gothic period, 414-711 -- Fiction PQ Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 424827 424829 2024-10-19T09:39:01.714109 2023-09-20T05:30:58.556124 text/html text/html 420152 2014-06-14T05:51:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 228250 2014-06-14T05:51:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 304243 2024-10-19T09:39:15.902016 application/epub+zip 313718 2024-10-19T09:39:07.349065 application/epub+zip 244096 2024-10-19T09:39:03.969095 application/epub+zip 478095 2024-10-19T09:39:20.552982 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 447698 2024-10-19T09:39:12.730064 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 370263 2022-09-20T21:47:33.666651 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 388673 388427 2024-10-19T09:39:00.611139 2023-09-20T05:30:57.753117 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 383138 2014-06-14T05:51:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 149860 2014-06-14T05:51:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20913 2024-10-19T09:39:21.147981 application/rdf+xml 12412 2024-10-19T09:39:05.102075 image/jpeg 3356 2024-10-19T09:39:04.607075 image/jpeg 294711 2024-10-19T09:39:01.757120 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia pt.wikipedia