Romola
$39.94
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2003
Summary
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 yo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375761218 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375761217 |
| Author: | George Eliot, Robert Kiely |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Edition: | 2003rd |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 553g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Modern Library 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
About The Author
George Eliot
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.
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