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An edition of Romola (1863)

Romola

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Ramola always occupied a special place in George Eliot's own affections, Looking back at the end of her career she remarked 'I felt some wonder that anyone should think I had written anything better'. The copy text for the Clarendon edition is the serialization in the Cornhill Magazine (July 1862-August 1863), emended to incorporate authorial revisions in the first edition in book form (1863), the Illustrated edition (1865), and the setting copy and proofs of the Cabinet edition (1877-8). A number of manuscript readings are also restored, where it seems likely that the Cornhill compositor misread the handwriting. Changes and deletions in the manuscript are recorded in the apparatus, along with rejected variants from post-Cornhill printings.

Drawings on George Eliot's unpublished journals and notebooks, the introduction gives a comprehensive account of the genesis, composition, and publishing history of the novel: her two visits to Florence; her prodigious preparatory research before she began writing; her negotiations with the publisher George Smith, who offered her the astonishing sum of 10,000 pounds for the book; her correspondence with Frederic Leighton, who illustrated the novel for the Cornhill; and the persistent ill-health and depression that afflicted her throughout the period of composition. Since its first appearance, Romola has perplexed many of George Eliot's admirers by the range and density of its historical references. Here, in a series of unusually extensive notes, the sources of these allusion are traced and their significance explained. The result is to re-establish the novel as one of the very greatest of her artistic accomplishments - in Henry James's words, 'on the whole the finest thing she wrote'.

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688

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Romola
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Hardcover in English
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Romola
January 17, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Paperback in English
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Romola
April 29, 2005, Broadview Press
Paperback in English
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Romola
2003, Modern Library
in English - 2003 Modern Library pbk. ed.
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Romola: Volume 2
October 10, 2001, Adamant Media Corporation
Paperback in English
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Romola (Konemann Classics)
June 2000, Konemann
Hardcover in English - Slipcase edition
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Romola: Library Edition
January 2000, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
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Romola
April 1999, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
in English
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Romola
1998, Oxford University Press
in English
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Romola (Penguin Classics)
January 1, 1997, Penguin Classics
in English
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Romola (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)
January 30, 1996, Audio Book Contractors,Inc.
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
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Romola
1996, Penguin Books
in English
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Romola (The Worlds Classics)
August 1994, Oxford University Press
in English
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Romola
1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
in English
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Romola
1980, Penguin Books
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Romola (World's Classics)
September 1980, Oxford Univ Pr
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Romola.
1962, Oxford U.P.
in English
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Romola
1949, Oxford University Press
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Romola
1931, J.M. Dent, E.P. Dutton
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Romola
1928, Oxford University Press
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Romola.
1914, Dent
in English
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Romola
1907, Dent
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Romola.: Edited, with introd. and notes
1907, T. Fisher Unwin
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Romola
1907, Dent, Dutton
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Romola
1907, Houghton, Mifflin
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Romola
1907, Dent, Dutton
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1907, Dent, Dutton
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1907, Houghton, Mifflin
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1906, William Blackwood and Sons
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1906, A. C. McClurg & co.
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1904, Doubleday, Page & co.
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1904, Doubleday, Page
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1901, Doubleday, Page & co.
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1900, Musson
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1900, Hurst
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1900, Little, Brown, and company
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Romola: Silas Marner.
1900, The University Society
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1900, Harper
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Romola
1899, Hawarden Press
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Romola.
1898, Rand, McNally & company
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Romola.: [A novel]
1898, Hurst and Company
Soft Leather/ Bucks Skin with Gold Embosed Text in English
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Romola: a Florentine romance
1896, Merrill and Baker
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Romola
1893, Estes and Lauriat
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Romola
1893, Estes and Lauriat
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1892, John W. Lovell Company
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1892, A. L. Burt
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Romola.
1891, A.L. Burt
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Romola
1891, T. Y. Crowell & co.
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Romola
1891, Crowell
in English - [Standard library ed.]
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Romola
1890, Worthington
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Romola
1890, Estes and Lauriat
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Romola.
1890, Estes and Lauriat
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Romola.
1890, William Blackwood and Sons
in English - Cabinet ed.
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1890, Porter & Coats
in English - Florentine edition
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1890, Porter & Coates
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Romola.
1888, Smith, Elder and Co
in English - 2nd ed.
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1887, Belford, Clarke
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1886, Smith, Elder
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1884, Belford, Clarke
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1883, J. W. Lovell company
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1878, Harper & Brothers
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1878, William Blackwood and Sons
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1877, Harper & brothers
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1863, Smith, Elder
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1863, B. Tauchnitz
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1863, Smith, Elder and Co.
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1863, Bernhard Tauchnitz
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Oxford [England], New York
Series
The Clarendon edition of the novels of George Eliot
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.8
Library of Congress
PR4668.A2 B76 1993, PR4668.A2B76 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
lxxxii, 688 p. :
Number of pages
688

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1712265M
Internet Archive
romola00eliogoog
ISBN 10
0198125941
LCCN
92014326
OCLC/WorldCat
25747112
Library Thing
103763
Goodreads
4939493

Work Description

Eliot’s only historical novel, set in 15th century Florence under the rule of the Medicis, blends fact with fiction as the reader follows the almost saint-like Romola and the amoral and feckless Tito Melema whom she marries against the advice of her brother, an equally saintly priest. An impressive account of Renaissance life in a wealthy Italian state.

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MORE than three centuries and a half ago, in the mid springtime of 1492, we are sure that the angel of the dawn, as he travelled with broad slow wing from the Levant to the of Hercules, and from the summits of the Caucasus across all the snowy alpine ridges to the dark nakedness of the western isles, saw nearly the same outline of firm land and unstable sea-saw the same great mountain shadows on the same valleys as he has seen to-day-saw olive mounts, and pine forests, and the broad plains green with young corn or rain-freshened grass-saw the domes and spires of cities rising by the river sides or mingled with the sedge-like masts on the many-curved sea coast, in the same spots where they rise to-day.
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