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Daniel Deronda George Eliot

Daniel Deronda By George Eliot

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot


Summary

Follows lives of the beautiful but spoiled Gwendolene Harleth and selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, this book charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism.

Daniel Deronda Summary

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

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.

Additional information

GOR001293680
9781853261763
1853261769
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
19960505
752
N/A
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