Daniel Deronda (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261769 ISBN 13: 9781853261763

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

""Daniel Deronda is a startling and unexpected novel . . . it is a cosmic myth, a world history, and a morality play." --A. S. Byatt

""Daniel Deronda" is a startling and unexpected novel . . . it is a cosmic myth, a world history, and a morality play." --A. S. Byatt

Daniel Deronda is a startling and unexpected novel . . . it is a cosmic myth, a world history, and a morality play. A. S. Byatt"

"Daniel Deronda is a startling and unexpected novel . . . it is a cosmic myth, a world history, and a morality play." --A. S. Byatt

Book Description:

George Eliot's final novel is an extraordinary, keen and yet tender examination of two very different lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853261769
• ISBN 13: 9781853261763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752