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Romola
Author: George Eliot
Narrator: Nadia May
Unabridged: 21 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/01/1998
Category: Fiction - Classics
Synopsis
"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book which is central in her career as a novelist and amongst her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works.Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliots 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 Savonarolas teachings, then crushed by the religious leaders ultimate failure, Romola finds her salvation in noble selfsacrifice.