Romola

ROMOLA 186263 by British Victorian woman author George Eliot is a complexhistorical novel of Renaissance Florence. Young handsome and ambitiousscholar Tito Mele... » 

ROMOLA 186263 by British Victorian woman author George Eliot is a complexhistorical novel of Renaissance Florence. Young handsome and ambitiousscholar Tito Melema falls in love with the erudite and intelligent Romoladaughter of another scholar and convinces her to marry him. In a mock ceremonyTito also marries a nave young Florentine girl Tessa. Political and religiousupheaval fills the city plague spreads and events reveal Tito to be adishonorable and cowardly schemer who betrays the trust of his adoptive father.Otherworldly and charitable Romola is thrust in the middle of this personal andpolitical conflict and her fate becomes entwined with historical events andwith Tessa the other wife. A sophisticated and manylayered psychologicalmasterpiece by the author of MIDDLEMARCH. «