George Eliot · 1863
74 chapters · 226,181 words
Proem
Chapter I: The Shipwrecked Stranger
Chapter II: Breakfast for Love
Chapter III: The Barber’s Shop
Chapter IV: First Impressions
Chapter V: The Blind Scholar and His Daughter
Chapter VI: Dawning Hopes
Chapter VII: A Learned Squabble
Chapter VIII: A Face in the Crowd
Chapter IX: A Man’s Ransom
Chapter X: Under the Plane-Tree
Chapter XI: Tito’s Dilemma
Chapter XII: The Prize Is Nearly Grasped
Chapter XIII: The Shadow of Nemesis
Chapter XIV: The Peasants’ Fair
Chapter XV: The Dying Message
Chapter XVI: A Florentine Joke
Chapter XVII: Under the Loggia
Chapter XVIII: The Portrait
Chapter XIX: The Old Man’s Hope
Chapter XX: The Day of the Betrothal
Chapter XXI: Florence Expects a Guest
Chapter XXII: The Prisoners
Chapter XXIII: After-Thoughts
Chapter XXIV: Inside the Duomo
Chapter XXV: Outside the Duomo
Chapter XXVI: The Garment of Fear
Chapter XXVII: The Young Wife
Chapter XXVIII: The Painted Record
Chapter XXIX: A Moment of Triumph
Chapter XXX: The Avenger’s Secret
Chapter XXXI: Fruit Is Seed
Chapter XXXII: A Revelation
Chapter XXXIII: Baldassarre Makes an Acquaintance
Chapter XXXIV: No Place for Repentance
Chapter XXXV: What Florence Was Thinking Of
Chapter XXXVI: Ariadne Discrowns Herself
Chapter XXXVII: The Tabernacle Unlocked
Chapter XXXVIII: The Black Marks Become Magical
Chapter XXXIX: A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens
Chapter XL: An Arresting Voice
Chapter XLI: Coming Back
Chapter XLII: Romola in Her Place
Chapter XLIII: The Unseen Madonna
Chapter XLIV: The Visible Madonna
Chapter XLV: At the Barber’s Shop
Chapter XLVI: By a Street Lamp
Chapter XLVII: Check
Chapter XLVIII: Counter-Check
Chapter XLIX: The Pyramid of Vanities
Chapter L: Tessa Abroad and at Home
Chapter LI: Monna Brigida’s Conversion
Chapter LII: A Prophetess
Chapter LIII: On San Miniato
Chapter LIV: The Evening and the Morning
Chapter LV: Waiting
Chapter LVI: The Other Wife
Chapter LVII: Why Tito Was Safe
Chapter LVIII: A Final Understanding
Chapter LIX: Pleading
Chapter LX: The Scaffold
Chapter LXI: Drifting Away
Chapter LXII: The Benediction
Chapter LXIII: Ripening Schemes
Chapter LXIV: The Prophet in His Cell
Chapter LXV: The Trial by Fire
Chapter LXVI: A Masque of the Furies
Chapter LXVII: Waiting by the River
Chapter LXVIII: Romola’s Waking
Chapter LXIX: Homeward
Chapter LXX: Meeting Again
Chapter LXXI: The Confession
Chapter LXXII: The Last Silence
Epilogue