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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliots final novel, Daniel Deronda 1876, follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the d With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliots final novel, Daniel Deronda 1876, follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism, the oppression of women, and racial and religious prejudice. Gwendolens attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda, while his search for origins leads him, via Judaism, to a quest for moral growth. Eliots radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared.