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    <body><![CDATA[George Eliot is arguably England’s best 19th Century novelist, and <u>Romola</u>, one of her less read and vastly underrated works, supports the argument.  Set in Florence at the very end of the 15th Century, capturing the mood and ambiance of that time and location brilliantly, the novel traces the live...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32249883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the only book from my beloved George that I had left to read, and it was definitely the most challenging.  She accurately portrays Florence in the age of the Medici's, to the point that even people in her day had no idea what the hell she was talking about half the time, hence her copious, f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7443017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In addition to Eliot's place in my mind as a keen observer of human foibles and motives, she adds in Romola a proficiency for historical fiction. Weaving together the fictional narrative at the heart of the novel with the political and religious happenings of late fifteenth century Florence, Eliot w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71135352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have no idea why Eliot considered Romola her greatest work. Certainly, she always does her homework. In this case--at least for a modern reader--the evidence of that seemed heavy handed. I'm sure this is illustrative of the tradition of historical novels, but forcing a narrative onto such a specif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15703422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an amazingly well written book.  She did such a good job creating complex characters that were true to life.  I realized after I read the book that many of her characters were actually real people so it proved to be quite the history lesson as well.  The main characters were fictional by ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76345350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My second date with my new best friend George Eliot.  I didn't love it like I loved <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45627140"><em>The Mill on the Floss</em></a>, which is fine.  I'm not sure that I want to love all things that way. <br/><br/>I'm rounding up the rating here because though it was a much more difficult read, I have near as much awe for w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71910164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Romola</em> is the contemporised Antigone of 15th Century Renaissance Florence, revamped by the astoundingly keen mind of George Eliot in 19th Century England. A long time ago on a college campus not too far away, I was supposed to have read Eliot's <em>Mill on the Floss</em>, but, along with many other mistakes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33028308">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1324299">
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Romola</em> marks a significant shift in George Eliot's career.  At first glance, this shift appears radical.  Whereas her first four works (<em>Scenes of Clerical Life</em> followed by the three early novels, <em>Adam Bede</em>, <em>The Mill on the Floss</em>, and <em>Silas Marner</em>) all document life in rural England in the late eight...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1324299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love George Eliot.  This book doesn't rank with Daniel Deronda or The Mill on the Floss, but it is good and, like all of GE's books, it is peppered with her incisive reflections about life.  Sometimes I feel very wise; reading Eliot never fails to put me back in my place.<br/><br/>I felt that I ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46537353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the plus side, the historical setting is excellently researched and detailed, and the portraits of (historical) Savonarola and (fictional) Tito are subtle, vivid, and convincing. On the minus side, the historical detail really bogs down the narrative, and the main character, Romola, is much less ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77145280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Get ready to wade through some very painstakingly-researched descriptions of just about everything in 14th-century soon-to-be Italy. If you can bear through that, you'll find a gem of a story that is eerily convicting in its depiction of the slow descent of a young soul into depravity, one small com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63806584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[why do I love george eliot so much?  just finished reading scene where florentine grandees are served a peacock which is the show-off dish of the day but is in fact very tough, and the various ways they each conceal they are not actually eating it.  followed by discussion of revolutionary affairs, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5311036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book about a woman's search for liberation in her moral life from religious authority and her husband's authority. Takes place in Renaissance Florence and integrates a Hegelian dialectical progress from religious authority to feminist moral theory.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Revisiting George Eliot for the first time after high school, I was very surprised by how interesting this book was...the subject, the characters, the setting... Florence 1492...this is what we should have read in high school.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great winter read with political intrigue, economic greed and misplaced religious fervor.  The entire story takes place in Florence from 1492-1498, did not expect to like this book as much as I did, would recommend to any one who enjoys historical novels.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not going to finish. The problem with this book is that George Eliot seems to have a greater interest in Italian history than she does is her story or its characters. She doesn't elaborate on these references either. She just wants you to know that <em>she</em> knows. She's at her best when she relies on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37217296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always, George Eliot is a master weaver of history, art, culture, and society.  While I enjoyed reading _Romola_ I did not love it, mostly because I found it a bit too preachy, probably stemming from its setting (late 15th century Florence).  I'm glad I read it, but I would recommend any of her o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22360260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not my favorite George Eliot book, and it took me a few months to get through. It tends to focus a lot on the historical context of the book, a little too much for my taste. The heroine was valiant, but most the rest of the characters are hard to like, hence the reason it took me so long to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18144379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of this book is of a brilliant and beautiful young man (truly a hero type) who makes one small wrong decsion and from that decision his life soars upward and then downward until he is the most despicable of villians. It's a bit hard to get going in, but SO worth it! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a slow-moving book, even by the standards of Victorian novels, and I understand why it's one of her least popular novels. But what a rewarding book for anyone who perseveres through its longueurs!  ]]></body>
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