Romola

By: George Eliot

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Paperback | 10 June 2003 | Edition Number 1

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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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"George Eliot's humanity colors all her other gifts--her humor, her morality, and her exquisite rhetoric." --Henry James

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Oxford World's Classics	p. i
Oxford World's Classics	p. ii
Introduction	p. vii
Note On The Text	p. xxiii
Select Bibliography	p. xxv
A Chronology Of George Eliot	p. xxvi
[july 1862] Proem	p. 3
The Shipwrecked Stranger	p. 11
	p. 11
A Breakfast for Love	p. 24
The Barber's Shop	p. 28
First Impressions	p. 39
The Blind Scholar and His Daughter	p. 43
Dawning Hopes	p. 57
A Learned Squabble	p. 72
A Face in the Crowd	p. 78
A Man's Ransom	p. 90
Under the Plane-Tree	p. 98
Tito's Dilemma	p. 110
The Prize is Nearly Grasped	p. 113
The Shadow of Nemesis	p. 125
The Peasants' Fair	p. 132
The Dying Message	p. 147
A Florentine Joke	p. 155
Under the Loggia	p. 168
The Portrait	p. 175
The Old Man's Hope	p. 181
The Day of the Betrothal	p. 185
Florence Expects a Guest	p. 195
	p. 195
The Prisoners	p. 202
After-Thoughts	p. 210
Inside the Duomo	p. 213
Outside the Duomo	p. 219
The Garment of Fear	p. 224
The Young Wife	p. 230
The Painted Record	p. 240
A Moment of Triumph	p. 245
The Avenger's Secret	p. 252
Fruit is Seed	p. 261
A Revelation	p. 266
Baldassarre Makes an Acquaintance	p. 277
No Place for Repentance	p. 285
What Florence Was Thinking of	p. 296
Ariadne Discrowns Herself	p. 300
The Tabernacle Unlocked	p. 310
[february 1863] Chapter XXXVIII the Black Marks Become Magical	p. 315
A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens	p. 321
An Arresting Voice	p. 337
Coming Back	p. 346
Romola in Her Place	p. 349
Book III	p. 349
The Unseen Madonna	p. 356
The Visible Madonna	p. 362
At the Barber's Shop	p. 368
By a Street Lamp	p. 376
[april 1863] Chapter Xlvii Check	p. 385
Counter Check	p. 388
The Pyramid of Vanities	p. 394
Tessa Abroad and at Home	p. 400
Monna Brigida's Conversion	p. 410
[may 1863] Chapter Lii a Prophetess	p. 415
On San Miniato	p. 421
The Evening and the Morning	p. 426
Waiting	p. 430
The Other Wife	p. 433
[june 1863] Chapter Lvii Why Tito Was Safe	p. 445
A Final Understanding	p. 451
Pleading	p. 456
The Scaffold	p. 465
Drifting Away	p. 471
[july 1863] Chapter Lxii the Benediction	p. 476
Ripening Schemes	p. 480
The Prophet in His Cell	p. 491
The Trial by Fire	p. 500
A Masque of the Furies	p. 507
Waiting by the River	p. 511
Romola's Waking	p. 518
Homeward	p. 527
Meeting Again	p. 530
The Confession	p. 535
The Last Silence	p. 541
Epilogue	p. 545
Explanatory Notes	p. 549
Glossary Of Italian Words	p. 620
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