This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the Cabinet Edition. About Romola. 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 , a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot’s novel blends vivid fictional characters with Pages: Romola (–63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". Romola. Romola is the least read of George Eliot's novels, yet in her lifetime it had great critical acclaim, from Henry James for instance. It had little public success however, and, like readers of earlier generations, we moderns find it difficult to get into, requiring a great deal of patience. If we can persist beyond the proem and the early chapters, we shall find some of her best pages and a picture of a past .
A historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century. Florence, Christopher Columbus has sailed towards the New World, and Florence has just mourned the death of its legendary leader, Lorenzo de' Medici. In this setting, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate. About Romola. 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 , a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot's novel blends vivid fictional characters with historical figures such as Savonarola. Romola is not, and never has been, one of George Eliot's more popular novels. Her contemporary critics were very hard on her ambitious Italian adventure, and, to this day, critical acclaim has not come to this novel which the author herself held in high esteem and affection.
Romola (–63) is a historical novel written by Mary Ann Evans under the pen name of George Eliot set in the fifteenth century. It is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". Romola. Romola is the least read of George Eliot's novels, yet in her lifetime it had great critical acclaim, from Henry James for instance. It had little public success however, and, like readers of earlier generations, we moderns find it difficult to get into, requiring a great deal of patience. If we can persist beyond the proem and the early chapters, we shall find some of her best pages and a picture of a past age that grips us with its dramatic narrative and rich characterisation. Romola (–63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view".
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