| Edition |
Modern Library paperback edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 796 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Modern Library classics |
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Modern Library classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Includes Reading Group Guide p. 795-796. |
| Summary |
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a thoughtful adult with an expanded vision of the world around her. The second is about Daniel Deronda, adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman who becomes fascinated with Jewish traditions when he meets an ailing Jewish philosopher named Mordecai and his sensitive sister, Mirah. Providentially, Daniel then discovers that he himself is Jewish. Eliot's tender portrait of Mordecai is considered by some critics to be one of the most sympathetic treatments of a Jewish character in Victorian literature. |
| Subject |
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction.
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Jews -- England -- Fiction.
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Zionists -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Didactic fiction.
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Jewish fiction.
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| ISBN |
037576013X |
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9780375760136 |
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