Romola: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Romola, credited to George Eliot, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Romola, by George Eliot. George Eliot's own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story of Romola, the intelligent daughter of a blind scholar, who is falling in love with a man who is going to change her life and the politics of Florence in a way she doesn't like. Set in 15th century Florence, it is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Romola
• Author credits: George Eliot
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 74
• Listed recording duration: 23:11:27

Catalogue topics

• history
• psychology

Opening tracks: first 24 of 74

1. 00 - Introduction — 20:35
2. 01 - The Shipwrecked Stranger — 35:06
3. 02 - Breakfast for Love — 10:39
4. 03 - The Barber's Shop — 24:39
5. 04 - First Impressions — 7:27
6. 05 - The Blind Scholar and his Daughter — 39:37
7. 06 - Dawning Hopes — 33:29
8. 07 - A Learned Squabble — 12:52
9. 08 - A Face in the Crowd — 30:50
10. 09 - A Man's Ransom — 17:45
11. 10 - Under the Plane-Tree — 32:37
12. 11 - Tito's Dilemma — 10:50
13. 12 - The Prize is nearly grasped — 33:59
14. 13 - The Shadow of Nemesis — 16:48
15. 14 - The Peasants' Fair — 42:13
16. 15 - The Dying Message — 30:11
17. 16 - A Florentine Joke — 32:39
18. 17 - Under the Loggia — 13:31
19. 18 - The Portrait — 13:12
20. 19 - The Old Man's Hope — 9:05
21. 20 - The Day of the Betrothal — 20:15
22. 21 - Florence expects a Guest — 21:42
23. 22 - The Prisoners — 15:53
24. 23 - After-Thoughts — 6:58

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