Romola
Romola by George Eliot is available here as the complete text, split into 1708 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Romola by George Eliot. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #24020.
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Romola
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Breakfast for Love
- Chapter III First Impressions
- Chapter IV The Blind Scholar and his Daughter
- Chapter V A Learned Squabble
- Chapter VI A Man’s Ransom
- Chapter VII Tito’s Dilemma
- Chapter VIII The Shadow of Nemesis
- Chapter IX The Dying Message
- Chapter X A Florentine Joke
- Chapter XI The Portrait
- Chapter XII The Day of the Betrothal
- Chapter XIII The Prisoners
- Chapter XIV Inside the Duomo
- Chapter XV The Garment of Fear
- Chapter XVI The Young Wife
- Chapter XVII A Moment of Triumph
- Chapter XVIII Fruit is Seed
- Chapter XIX Baldassarre makes an Acquaintance
- Chapter XX What Florence was thinking of
- Chapter XXI Ariadne discrowns herself
- Chapter XXII The Black Marks become Magical
- Chapter XXIII An Arresting Voice
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV The Visible Madonna
- Chapter XXVI By a Street Lamp
- Chapter XXVII Check
- Chapter XXVIII The Pyramid of Vanities
- Chapter XXIX Monna Brigida’s Conversion
- Chapter XXX On San Miniato
- Chapter XXXI Waiting
- Chapter XXXII Why Tito was Safe
- Chapter XXXIII A Final Understanding
- Chapter XXXIV The Scaffold
- Chapter XXXV The Benediction
- Chapter XXXVI The Prophet in his Cell
- Chapter XXXVII A Masque of the Furies
- Chapter XXXVIII Romola’s waking
- Chapter XXXIX Homeward
- Chapter XL The Confession
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Project Gutenberg eBook #24020, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 600 minutes of reading across 1708 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Three
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- Centuries
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- Spring-time
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- Angel
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