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Rizal's Own Story of His Life

José Rizal

Rizal's Own Story of His Life

Paper book: €13.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1918
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
99
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Biography and Autobiography, History
Moods
Meet a real life, Travel back in time, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

In these texts gathered for the schoolchildren of the Philippines, José Rizal tells his own life: his childhood in Calamba, on the shore of a large lake, his mother teaching him to read in the evenings, the strict school in Biñan, then his success at college in Manila. Other pages tell of his travels, from Japan to England, and of his exile in Dapitan.

We get to know the national hero of the Philippines from the inside, with proverbs, riddles and a legend from his country as well.

Written in simple sentences, this little book is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A childhood in the Philippines. A little boy grows up on the shore of a great lake. In the evening, by the light of an oil lamp, his mother teaches him to read.

The world of the book

A Spanish colony. The Philippines is a country of more than seven thousand islands, in Asia. By 1870, Spain has ruled it for three hundred years. At school, lessons are in Spanish, but at home children speak Tagalog…

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