Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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Description
George Eliot's last novel opens near four o'clock on a September day, in a haze of gambling-room stillness broken by the rattle and chink of the tables. Gwendolen Harleth, the spoiled child of the first book, is at the center of that scene, beautiful, willful, and already gambling with her future. Daniel Deronda, watching her, becomes the other pole of the story.
The novel follows two streams toward a meeting. One is Gwendolen's choice of marriage and its consequences. The other is Deronda's search for his origins, which leads him to Mordecai and to a vision of Jewish national life. Books titled Maidens Choosing, Mordecai, Revelations, and Fruit and Seed mark the journey. Daniel Deronda is Eliot's most ambitious novel, joining a marriage plot to a profound inquiry into identity and belonging.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | George Eliot |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1.7 MB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |