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Romola (Penguin Classics)
by: George Eliot

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780140434705
ISBN: 0140434704
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 688
Publication Date: June 27, 1996
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 88868

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- not Eliot's best...
... but still a good read. The scenes set in Florence are interesting and the hero/heroine start out well, though she fails the hold our interest. For a similar situation examining the effects of unequal marriages on both men and women read Eliot's Middlemarch instead, which really is her masterpiece.

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- George Eliot, Romola, Penguin Classics, Ed.Dorothea Barrett
Summary: An unfairly under-read classic - Eliot at her brilliant best on the subtle destruction of a marriage.

Romola! The very name strikes fear into the most ardent Eliot devotees! Many start and never finish it and British universities seem only too willing to consign it to the dusty recesses of literary didn't-quite-make-its. Indeed, if there is such a thing as a popular perception of Romola, or indeed of Eliot's state of mind as she was writing it, it is of the great Victorian sage forgetting to smile: being at her most worthy, her most didactic while presenting neither the sparkling repartee of a Mrs Poyser, girlish malefactions of a Hetty Sorrel nor indeed the dynamic introspections of a Dorothea Brooke. And yet this seems ... Read More:

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- George Eliot, Romola, Penguin Classics, Ed.Dorothea Barrett
Summary: An unfairly under-read classic - Eliot at her brilliant best on the subtle destruction of a marriage

Romola! The very name strikes fear into the most ardent Eliot devotees! Many start and never finish it and British universities seem only too willing to consign it to the dusty recesses of literary didn't-quite-make-its. Indeed, if there is such a thing as a popular perception of Romola, or indeed of Eliot's state of mind as she was writing it, it is of the great Victorian sage forgetting to smile: being at her most worthy, her most didactic while presenting neither the sparkling repartee of a Mrs Poyser, girlish malefactions of a Hetty Sorrel nor indeed the dynamic introspections of a Dorothea Brooke. And yet this seems entirely ... Read More:

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- Florence, 15th century, The Medicis, Savonarola, Machiavelli
Romola was going to be one of the best books I have read. I love historic fiction and I had enjoyed George Eliot's other books. I knew that Eliot had spent years in preparation for Romola and I knew that she thought it was her best work. I trusted Eliot's opinion of her own book and I believed that good books required good research. So, nothing could go wrong, I was going to love this book no matter what. I bought it but did not read it right away. Since we had an upcoming Florence trip, I waited until I saw the city of Romola. As soon as we returned back from Florence, much enamoured by it, I started the book with great enthusiasm. As I read about the River Arno, Ponte Vecchio, the Campanile and the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, ... Read More:

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