Daniel Derondo
Eliot, George (, 1819-1880)
Daniel Derondo / George Eliot ; edited with introduction and notes by Terence Cave - 1st Scribner hardcover ed. - New York : Penguin Books , 1995 - 434 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
English
9780140434279
Jews---Fiction---England
England---Social life and customs---19th century----Fiction
Didactic fiction
PS3613.A8484 / R43 2013
FIC ELI
Daniel Derondo / George Eliot ; edited with introduction and notes by Terence Cave - 1st Scribner hardcover ed. - New York : Penguin Books , 1995 - 434 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
English
9780140434279
Jews---Fiction---England
England---Social life and customs---19th century----Fiction
Didactic fiction
PS3613.A8484 / R43 2013
FIC ELI
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