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Subject(s)

• Jews—England—Fiction [Browse]
• Social classes—England—Fiction [Browse]
• Great Britain—Social life and customs—Fiction [Browse]

Editor

• Handley, Graham [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Didactic fiction [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics

Summary note

Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage, and the very different lives of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, and her family. As Deronda uncovers the long-hidden secret of his own parentage, Eliot's moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to the Victorian novel.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The spoiled child
• Meeting streams
• Maidens choosing
• Gwendolen gets her choice
• Mordecai
• Revelations
• The mother and the son
• Fruit and seed.

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ISBN

• 9780199682867 (pbk.)
• 0199682860 (pbk.)

OCLC

1035276003

RCP

H - S

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