Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda is a novel written by English author Mary Ann Evans under the pen name of George Eliot, first published in eight parts (books) February to September 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the Victorian society of her day. The work's mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with its sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist ideas, has made it the controversial final statement of one of the most renowned Victorian novelists.
Daniel Deronda has two main strands of plot, and while the "story of Gwendolen Harleth" has been described as "one of the masterpieces of English fiction", that part concerned with Daniel Deronda has been described as "flat and unconvincing". All the same Daniel Deronda's story has had a significant influence on Zionism.
Written during a time when Restorationism had a strong following, George Eliot's novel had a positive influence on later Jewish Zionism. It has been cited by Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Emma Lazarus as having been influential in their decision to become Zionists.
Excerpted from Daniel Deronda on Wikipedia.
Daniel Deronda
| Author | George Eliot |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre | Didactic fiction, Romances |
| Copyright | Public domain worldwide. |
| Book cover | Gwendolen Harleth at the roulette table (1910) Image: wikimedia |
| Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
| Scans | Google-digitized |
| Audio | Librivox | Internet Archive Reader: Becky Miller 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 |
| Read online | Daniel Deronda I, II |
