Si Tandang Basio Macunat

Summary

An old farmer of Tanay, Tandang Basio, tells a visitor why he will not hear that his children should go to study in Manila, and reads out the story his dead father Antonio wrote down. It follows a decent family ruined by the wish to raise a son above his station, in letters between the student Próspero and his parents. A Tagalog satire and moral tale of the 1880s by the friar Miguel Lucio y Bustamante. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

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• English · description available; chapters remain in Filipino

Chapters (12)

1. 1. Si Tandang Basio Macunat
2. 2. Kabanata 2
3. 3. Kabanata 3
4. 4. Kabanata 4
5. 5. Unang Sulat Ni Prospero
6. 6. Sulat Ni Felicitas
7. 7. Icalauang Sulat Ni Prospero
8. 8. Sulat Ni Cabezang Angi
9. 9. Icatlong Sulat Ni Prospero
10. 10. Catapusan
11. 11. Kabanata 11
12. 12. Kabanata 12