Title: Daniel Deronda
First published: 1876
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 the young Jewish woman Mirah, he becomes involved in 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 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 within it.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, Jews in fiction, England in fiction, Zionists in fiction, Zionists, Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, English fiction, Translations into Yiddish, Classic Literature, Literature, England, fiction, Jews, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, Upper class
Places: England
People: George Eliot (1819-1880)
Time periods: 19th century