num_pages: 707
description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher.George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship.Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism, the oppression of women, and racial and religious prejudice. Gwendolen's attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda, while his search for origins leads him, via Judaism, to a quest for moral growth.Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared.
language: English
title: Daniel Deronda
titlecomplete: Daniel Deronda
characters: Daniel Deronda, Sir Hugo Mallinger, Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth, Mirah Lapidoth
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Jewish, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 25389
places: England
publisher: Wordsworth Editions