Daniel Deronda (Eliot - Oxford ed.)

Author: George Eliot

ISBN: 9780199682867

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

"She felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win much."

Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centred, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life-changing. Damaged by their pasts, and alienated from the society around them, they must both discover the values that will give their lives meaning.