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1 online resource (1 audio file (21hr., 54 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Nadia May. |
| 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction.
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Women -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction.
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Greeks -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction.
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Self-sacrifice -- Fiction.
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Married women -- Fiction.
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Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
May, Nadia.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982428020 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982428023 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10028512 |
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