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This is my least favorite Eliot so far and I think there are only a few I haven't read. It didn't seem to go anywhere and the characters's action were frustrating. I've never grown bored with Eliot's philosophizing but it was heavy handed in Romola.
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George Eliot's historical novel of Florence in the late 1400's is well researched, rich in detail, and filled with quite believable historical and fictional characters. I enjoyed it and see in it the seeds of Middlemarch.
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