Romola
$24.77
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
27 June 1996
Summary
One of George Eliot’s most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family, during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito, whose duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values. She must break away to find h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140434704 |
| Author: | George Eliot, Dorothea Barrett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 27 June 1996 |
| Weight: | 506g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“George Eliot’s humanity colors all her other gifts-her humor, her morality, and her exquisite rhetoric.” -Henry James
“George Eliot’s humanity colors all her other gifts—her humor, her morality, and her exquisite rhetoric.” —Henry James
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George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century.
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