Romola

By:

George Eliot

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Modern Library Classics

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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.

Author Biography:

Robert Kiely is Loker Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard. Among his publications are Reverse Tradition- Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel, and Still Learning- Spiritual Sketches from a Professor's Life.

Release date NZ

June 10th, 2003

Author

George Eliot

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Robert Kiely

Pages

656

Series

Modern Library Classics

Dimensions

133x202x38

ISBN-13

9780375761218

Product ID

3108991

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