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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