Daniel Deronda

Description

George Eliot’s final novel, published in 1876, follows the 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 English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts the couple’s search for a meaningful life 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. This is an early hardback edition by William Blackwood, with signs of library usage but otherwise in good condition.