RomolaBroadview Press, 29 abr 2005 - 256 páginas The most exotic of George Eliot’s works, Romola recounts the story of the famous religious leader Savonarola in Florence at the time of Machiavelli and the Medicis. Of all her novels, this was the author’s favourite. No other Eliot novel was illustrated in its first edition. Romola, however, was sought by George Smith for serialization in the prestigious illustrated Cornhill Magazine. Smith commissioned illustrations for the novel from the rising young artist Frederick Leighton, who had studied in Florence in the 1840s and had frequently painted Florentine Renaissance subjects. Romola was serialised with the Leighton illustrations in the magazine from July 1862 to August 1863. It was first published in book form in 1863; the first edition was published by Smith, Elder in three volumes, and a one-volume edition in two-column format with all but one of the Leighton illustrations was published later that year by Harper & Brothers in the United States. This facsimile reprint is of the one-volume 1863 Harper & Brothers edition, and includes 8 pages of original advertisements from the back of the book. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them. |
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... lip and chin . It is a face charged with memories of a keen and various life passed below there on the banks of the gleaming river ; and as he looks at the scene before him , the sense of familiarity is so much stronger than the ...
... lips moving to the old prayers for help . These The standing figure was the first to speak . things have not changed . The sunlight and He was a gray - haired , broad - shouldered man , shadows bring their old beauty and waken the of ...
... lips at the speaker with a glance provokingly free while she was stooping to gather the herbs . The from alarm and deprecation , and his slight ex- dream was broken , however , for she opened her pression of saucy amusement broke into a ...
... lips , but will appear like a dark cavern fringed with horrent brambles . " " That is a terrible prophecy , " said the Greek , " especially if your Florentine maidens are many of them as pretty as the little Tessa I stole a kiss from ...
... lip , and when his eyes fell again , they glanced round with a scanning coolness which was rather piquing to Nello's Florentine spirit . " Ebbene , bel giovane , " he said , with some im - saints . ' Ah , Messer Greco , if you want to ...
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A LEARNED SQUABBLE | 39 |
A FACE IN THE CROWD | 41 |
THE TABERNACLE UNLOCKED | 144 |
THE BLACK MARKS BECOME MAGICAL | 147 |
A SUPPER IN THE RUCELLAI GARDENS | 149 |
AN ARRESTING VOICE | 157 |
COMING BACK | 161 |
ROMOLA IN HER PLACE | 162 |
THE UNSEEN MADONNA | 165 |
THE VISIBLE MADONNA | 168 |
A MANS HANSOM | 47 |
UNDER THE PLANETREE | 50 |
TITOS DILEMMA | 56 |
THE PRIZE IS NEARLY GRASPED | 57 |
THE SHADOW OF NEMESIS | 63 |
THE PEASANTS FAIR | 66 |
THE DYING MESSAGE | 73 |
A FLORENTINE JOKE | 77 |
UNDER THE LOGGIA | 83 |
THE PORTRAIT | 86 |
THE OLD MANS HOPE | 88 |
THE DAY OF THE BETROTHAL | 90 |
FLORENCE EXPECTS A GUEST | 94 |
THE PRISONERS | 97 |
AFTERTHOUGHTS | 101 |
INSIDE THE DUOMO | 102 |
OUTSIDE THE DUOMO | 104 |
THE GARMENT OF FEAR | 106 |
THE YOUNG WIFE | 109 |
THE PAINTED RECORD | 114 |
A MOMENT OF TRIUMPH | 117 |
THE AVENGERS SECRET | 120 |
FRUIT 18 SEED | 124 |
A REVELATION | 126 |
BALDASSARRE MAKES AN ACQUAINTANCE | 130 |
NO PLACE FOB REPENTANCE | 134 |
WHAT FLORENCE WAS THINKING OF | 139 |
ARIADNE DISCROWNS HERSELF | 140 |
AT THE BARBERS SHOP | 171 |
BY A STREET LAMP | 175 |
CHECK | 179 |
COUNTERCHECK | 180 |
THE PYRAMID OP VANITIES | 182 |
TESSA ABROAD AND AT HOME | 185 |
MONNA BRIGIDAS CONVERSION | 189 |
A PROPHETESS | 192 |
ON SAM MINIATO | 195 |
THE OTHER WIFE | 200 |
WHY TITO WAS SAFE | 206 |
A FINAL UNDERSTANDING | 208 |
PLEADING | 210 |
THE SCAFFOLD | 214 |
DRIFTING AWAY | 217 |
THE BENEDICTION | 219 |
RIPENING SCHEMES | 221 |
THE PROPHET IN HIS CELL | 226 |
THE TRIAL BY FIRE | 229 |
A MASQUE OF THE FURIES | 232 |
WAITING BY THE RIVER | 234 |
ROMOLAS WAKING | 237 |
HOMEWARD | 241 |
MEETING AGAIN | 242 |
THE CONFESSION | 244 |
THE LAST SILENCE | 247 |
EPILOGUE | 248 |