num_pages: 850
description: As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with Mirah, a young Jewish woman, he embarks on a search for her lost family and finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations and identity. 'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else', wrote George Eliot of her last and, perhaps, most ambitious novel, and in weaving her plot strands together she created a bold and richly textured picture of British society and the Jewish experience both within and beyond it.
language: English
title: Daniel Deronda
titlecomplete: Daniel Deronda
characters: Mirah Lapidoth, Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt, Sir Hugo Mallinger, Daniel Deronda, Gwendolen Harleth
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Jewish, British Literature
ratings_count: 25387
places: England
publisher: Penguin Books