George Eliot Daniel Deronda

About Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda (1876) is George Eliot's final and most ambitious novel — simultaneously a brilliant psychological portrait of English upper-class society through the story of Gwendolen Harleth and a visionary argument for Jewish national self-determination through the story of Daniel Deronda, who discovers his Jewish heritage. The most politically daring of Eliot's novels, it is the culmination of her career and the work that most anticipates the formal ambitions of twentieth-century fiction.