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.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN: 9781853261763
Number of pages: 752
Weight: 461 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 37 mm
This book is George Eliot’s final novel very well written however I will say this book is in eight parts and you need to really focus this is not a book for beginners but that is the only downside to the book!
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