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Romola

Romola

Kiely, Robert
Eliot, George

Paperback

Series: Modern Library Classics

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 0375761217
ISBN13: 9780375761218
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Published: Jun 10 2003
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.02
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
George Eliot's Romola, writes Robert Kiely in his Introduction, embodies the author's wrestling with her own best theories of history and human nature as a creative experiment of the highest order. Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot's novel blends vivid fictional characters with historical figures such as Savonarola, Machiavelli, and the Medicis. When Romola, the virtuous daughter of a blind scholar, marries Tito Melema, a charismatic young Greek, she is bound to a man whose escalating betrayals threaten to destroy all that she holds dear. Profoundly inspired by Savonarola's teachings, then crushed by the religious leader's ultimate failure, Romola finds her salvation in noble self-sacrifice. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1878 Cabinet Edition.

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