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Romola
About this book
Romola (1862–63) 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". The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Title
- Prologue.
- Chapter 1 - The Shipwrecked Stranger.
- Chapter 2 - Breakfast for Love.
- Chapter 3 - The Barber’s Shop.
- Chapter 4 - First Impressions.
- Chapter 5 - The Blind Scholar and his Daughter.
- Chapter 6 - Dawning Hopes.
- Chapter 7 - A Learned Squabble.
- Chapter 8 - A Face in the Crowd.
- Chapter 9 - A Man’s Ransom.
- Chapter 10 - Under the Plane-Tree.
- Chapter 11 - Tito’s Dilemma.
- Chapter 12 - The Prize is nearly grasped.
- Chapter 13 - The Shadow of Nemesis.
- Chapter 14 - The Peasants’ Fair.
- Chapter 15 - The Dying Message.
- Chapter 16 - A Florentine Joke.
- Chapter 17 - Under the Loggia.
- Chapter 18 - The Portrait.
- Chapter 19 - The Old Man’s Hope.
- Chapter 20 - The Day of the Betrothal.
- Chapter 21 - Florence expects a Guest.
- Chapter 22 - The Prisoners.
- Chapter 23 - After-Thoughts.
- Chapter 24 - Inside the Duo.
- Chapter 25 - Outside the Duomo.
- Chapter 26 - The Garment of Fear.
- Chapter 27 - The Young Wife.
- Chapter 28 - The Painted Record.
- Chapter 29 - A Moment of Triumph.
- Chapter 30 - The Avenger’s Secret.
- Chapter 31 - Fruit is Seed.
- Chapter 32 - A Revelation.
- Chapter 33 - Baldassarre makes an Acquaintance.
- Chapter 34 - No Place for Repentance.
- Chapter 35 - What Florence was thinking of.
- Chapter 36 - Ariadne discrowns herself.
- Chapter 37 - The Tabernacle Unlocked.
- Chapter 38 - The Black Marks become Magical.
- Chapter 39 - A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens.
- Chapter 40 - An Arresting Voice.
- Chapter 41 - Coming Back.
- Chapter 42 - Romola in her Place.
- Chapter 43 - The Unseen Madonna.
- Chapter 44 - The Visible Madonna.
- Chapter 45 - At the Barber’s Shop.
- Chapter 46 - By a Street Lamp.
- Chapter 47 - Check.
- Chapter 48 - Counter-Check.
- Chapter 49 - The Pyramid of Vanities.
- Chapter 50 - Tessa Abroad and at Home.
- Chapter 51 - Monna Brigida’s Conversion.
- Chapter 52 - A Prophetess.
- Chapter 53 - On San Miniato.
- Chapter 54 - The Evening and the Morning.
- Chapter 55 - Waiting.
- Chapter 56 - The Other Wife.
- Chapter 57 - Why Tito was Safe.
- Chapter 58 - A Final Understanding.
- Chapter 59 - Pleading.
- Chapter 60 - The Scaffold.
- Chapter 61 - Drifting Away.
- Chapter 62 - The Benediction.
- Chapter 63 - Ripening Schemes.
- Chapter 64 - The Prophet in his Cell.
- Chapter 65 - The Trial by Fire.
- Chapter 66 - A Masque of the Furies.
- Chapter 67 - Waiting by the River.
- Chapter 68 - Romola’s waking.
- Chapter 69 - Homeward.
- Chapter 70 - Meeting Again.
- Chapter 71 - The Confession.
- Chapter 72 - The Last Silence.
- Epilogue.
- Footnotes
