Romola

In the golden streets of Renaissance Florence, a young woman's ideals are tested by love, faith, and betrayal. Romola de' Bardi, the scholarly daughter of a blind Greek scholar, marries the charming and mysterious Tito Melema—only to discover that his ambition and secret past threaten everything she holds dear. As the city seethes under the moral fire of the Dominican friar Savonarola, Romola must choose between loyalty to her husband and the call of a larger world. This modern retelling brings George Eliot's epic of corruption, redemption, and a woman's awakening into vivid, contemporary language—faithful to the original's emotional depth and historical grandeur. Part of Timeless Classics.