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Cynthia
Feb 10, 2017 rated it liked it
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. ...more
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Laurel Hicks
Feb 10, 2013 rated it really liked it
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. ...more
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