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Romola

by George Eliot

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23 h 11 min · 74 parts

  1. 00 - Introduction

    20:34

  2. 01 - The Shipwrecked Stranger

    35:05

  3. 02 - Breakfast for Love

    10:39

  4. 03 - The Barber's Shop

    24:38

  5. 04 - First Impressions

    7:26

  6. 05 - The Blind Scholar and his Daughter

    39:36

  7. 06 - Dawning Hopes

    33:29

  8. 07 - A Learned Squabble

    12:52

  9. 08 - A Face in the Crowd

    30:50

  10. 09 - A Man's Ransom

    17:44

  11. 10 - Under the Plane-Tree

    32:37

  12. 11 - Tito's Dilemma

    10:50

  13. 12 - The Prize is nearly grasped

    33:59

  14. 13 - The Shadow of Nemesis

    16:48

  15. 14 - The Peasants' Fair

    42:12

  16. 15 - The Dying Message

    30:11

  17. 16 - A Florentine Joke

    32:38

  18. 17 - Under the Loggia

    13:30

  19. 18 - The Portrait

    13:12

  20. 19 - The Old Man's Hope

    9:05

  21. 20 - The Day of the Betrothal

    20:15

  22. 21 - Florence expects a Guest

    21:42

  23. 22 - The Prisoners

    15:53

  24. 23 - After-Thoughts

    6:58

  25. 24 - Inside the Duomo

    15:14

  26. 25 - Outside the Duomo

    10:04

  27. 26 - The Garment of Fear

    10:44

  28. 27 - The Young Wife

    21:07

  29. 28 - The Painted Record

    10:22

  30. 29 - A Moment of Triumph

    15:34

  31. 30 - The Avenger's Secret

    22:08

  32. 31 - Fruit is Seed

    11:39

  33. 32 - A Revelation

    26:22

  34. 33 - Baldassarre makes an Acquaintance

    16:13

  35. 34 - No Place for Repentance

    23:17

  36. 35 - What Florence was thinking of

    9:08

  37. 36 - Ariadne discrowns herself

    27:42

  38. 37 - The Tabernacle Unlocked

    13:42

  39. 38 - The Black Marks become Magical

    20:50

  40. 39 - A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens

    51:39

  41. 40 - An Arresting Voice

    24:02

  42. 41 - Coming Back

    8:56

  43. 42 - Romola in her Place

    20:25

  44. 43 - The Unseen Madonna

    18:01

  45. 44 - The Visible Madonna

    15:54

  46. 45 - At the Barber's Shop

    23:03

  47. 46 - By a Street Lamp

    22:13

  48. 47 - Check

    8:01

  49. 48 - Counter-Check

    15:38

  50. 49 - The Pyramid of Vanities

    16:51

  51. 50 - Tessa Abroad and at Home

    26:04

  52. 51 - Monna Brigida's Conversion

    12:22

  53. 52 - A Prophetess

    15:28

  54. 53 - On San Miniato

    14:56

  55. 54 - The Evening and the Morning

    9:37

  56. 55 - Waiting

    9:30

  57. 56 - The Other Wife

    30:43

  58. 57 - Why Tito was Safe

    14:17

  59. 58 - A Final Understanding

    15:18

  60. 59 - Pleading

    21:35

  61. 60 - The Scaffold

    14:58

  62. 61 - Drifting Away

    12:35

  63. 62 - The Benediction

    11:36

  64. 63 - Ripening Schemes

    30:47

  65. 64 - The Prophet in his Cell

    22:30

  66. 65 - The Trial by Fire

    18:16

  67. 66 - A Masque of the Furies

    10:09

  68. 67 - Waiting by the River

    15:45

  69. 68 - Romola's waking

    21:43

  70. 69 - Homeward

    7:29

  71. 70 - Meeting Again

    11:18

  72. 71 - The Confession

    15:40

  73. 72 - The Last Silence

    7:46

  74. 73 - Epilogue

    9:33

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Set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent age of the fiery preacher Savonarola, Eliot's ambitious historical novel follows the noble-hearted Romola as she is betrayed by her charming, faithless husband Tito and finds her own moral awakening amid the city's political and religious upheaval. Meticulously researched and richly atmospheric, it recreates fifteenth-century Italy while exploring conscience, duty, and integrity. Though more demanding than her English novels, Romola is a powerful study of a woman's ethical growth against a vividly rendered historical backdrop. Ambitious and morally searching, it stands as Eliot's grand experiment in the historical form and a compelling portrait of Florence in crisis.

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More than three centuries and a half ago, in the mid spring-time of 1492, we are sure that the angel of the dawn, as he travelled with broad slow wing from the Levant to the Pillars of Hercules, and from the summits of the Caucasus across all the snowy Alpine ridges to the dark nakedness of the Western isles, saw nearly the same outline of firm land and unstable sea—saw the same great mountain shadows on the same valleys as he has seen to-day—saw olive mounts, and pine forests, and the broad plains green with young corn or rain-freshened grass—saw the domes and spires of cities rising by the river-sides or mingled with the sedge-like masts on the many-curved sea-coast, in the same spots where they rise to-day. And as the faint light of his course pierced into the dwellings of men, it fell, as now, on the rosy warmth of nestling children; on the haggard waking of sorrow and sickness; on the hasty uprising of the hard-handed labourer; and on the late sleep of the night-student, who had been questioning the stars or the sages, or his own soul, for that hidden knowledge which would break through the barrier of man’s brief life, and show its dark path, that seemed to bend no whither, to be an arc in an immeasurable circle of light and glory. The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history—hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

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Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

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First published
1862
Reading time
About 17 hours
Pages
568
Language
English
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