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Author: George Eliot

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Author: George Eliot

Description: I read this for my freshman year HS English Honors class. Long, laborious read, but worth it.I read this for my freshman year HS English Honors class. Long, laborious read, but worth it. Sad, but with a powerful message....

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Authors: George Eliot Carol T. Christ

Tags: romance victorian brittish

Description: This book, like most of Eliott's work reads as if it is chronicling the lives of the modestlyThis book, like most of Eliott's work reads as if it is chronicling the lives of the modestly fortunate in Brittain. Jane Austen and George Eliott cover similar subject matter (the class structure of Victorian England), but Eliott's characters seem within reach. They are country people of modest to moderate means, rather than Austen's relative suburbia, with its leaning toward the gentry. There is an irresistable, hopeful sadness to Eliott's work that should not be overlooked....

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Author: George Eliot

Tags: friendship identity oppression idealist Victorian_England Zionist

Description: The story opens memorably at a roulette table, where we first meet the young and idealisticThe story opens memorably at a roulette table, where we first meet the young and idealistic Daniel Deronda and the enchanting Gwendolen Harleth—whom many critics consider to be George Eliot’s finest creation. Although the two are immediately drawn to one another, Gwendolen—outwardly alluring and vivacious, inwardly complex and unsettled—is forced by circumstance into an oppressive marriage with the harsh aristocratic Henleigh Grandcourt.

Deeply unhappy, she turns for friendship to Daniel, only to discover his involvement with Mirah Lapidoth, a talented young Jewish woman. Torn between his devotion to Gwendolen and his passion for Mirah and the plight of her people, Daniel is forced to look at his own mysterious past and find out who he really is—and who he wants to become....