Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

• Publisher: Caelwick Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780061027765
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Daniel Deronda , published in 1876, was George Eliot's last novel. It deals with two major characters whose lives intersect: One is a spoiled young woman named Gwendolen Harleth who makes an unwise marriage to escape impending poverty; the other is the titular character, Daniel Deronda, a wealthy young man who feels a mission to help the suffering. During her childhood Gwendolen's family was well-off. She lived in comfort and was indulged and pampered. But the family's fortune is lost through an unwise investment, and she returns to a life of near-poverty, a change which she greatly resents both for herself and for her widowed mother. The only escape seems to be for her to marry a wealthy older man who has been courting her in a casual, unemotional way. The marriage turns out to be a terrible mistake. Daniel Deronda has been raised by Sir Hugo Mallinger as his nephew, but Daniel has never discovered his true parentage, thinking it likely that he is Sir Hugo's natural son. This consciousness of his probable illegitimacy moves him to kindness and tolerance towards anyone who is suffering from disadvantage. One evening, while rowing on the river Thames, he spots a young woman about to leap into the water to drown herself. He persuades her instead to come with him for shelter to a family he knows. The young woman turns out to be Jewish, and through his trying to help her find her lost family, Deronda comes into contact with Jewish culture—and in particular with a man named Mordecai, who has a passionate vision for the future of the Jewish race and who sees in Daniel a kindred spirit. The paths that Gwendolen and Daniel follow intersect often, and Daniel's kindly nature moves him to try to offer her comfort and advice in her moments of distress. Unsurprisingly, Gwendolen misinterprets Daniel's attentions. In Daniel Deronda Eliot demonstrates considerable sympathy towards the Jewish people, their culture, and their aspirations for a national homeland. At the time this was an unpopular and even.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Chapitre 1
• Chapitre 2
• Chapitre 3
• Chapitre 4
• Chapitre 5
• Chapitre 6
• Chapitre 7
• Chapitre 8
• Chapitre 9
• Chapitre 10
• Chapitre 11
• Chapitre 12
• Chapitre 13
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• Chapitre 21
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• Chapitre 45
• Chapitre 46
• Chapitre 47
• Chapitre 48
• Chapitre 49
• Chapitre 50
• Chapitre 51
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• Chapitre 53
• Chapitre 54
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• Chapitre 64
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• Chapitre 68
• Chapitre 69
• Chapitre 70
• Notes