Romola

Resource Information

The work Romola represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vaughan Public Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

Romola

Statement of responsibility

George Eliot

Creator

• Eliot, George, 1819-1880

Contributor

• hoopla digital
• May, Nadia

Author

• Eliot, George, 1819-1880

Subject

• Self-sacrifice -- Fiction
• Women -- Italy | Florence -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Historical fiction
• Greeks -- Italy | Florence -- Fiction
• Married women -- Fiction

Genre

• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Historical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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, Eliot's 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 Savonarola's teachings, then crushed by the religious leader's ultimate failure, Romola finds her salvation in noble self-sacrifice

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

PerformerNote

Read by Nadia May

Target audience

general

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable