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Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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Meeting by chance at a gambling hall in Europe, the separate lives of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth are immediately intertwined. Daniel, an Englishman of uncertain parentage, becomes Gwendolyn's redeemer as she finds herself drawn to his spiritual and altruistic nature after a loveless marriage. But Daniel's path was already set when he rescued a young Jewess from suicide.

Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's final novel, is a remarkable work, encompassing themes of religion, imperialism and gender within its broad and fascinating scope.

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Public Domain (P)2015 Naxos AudioBooks Drama & Plays European World Literature
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I know that not everyone likes Daniel Deronda, and that some consider it George Eliot's weakest novel. It's certainly one of her most overtly political, and the long treatise near the middle about the condition of Victorian Jews is very hard going.

However, I loved this novel when I first read it, and Juliet Stevenson does an outstanding job with a complex cast of characters with wildly varying personalities.

Deronda is skilfully drawn as a young man who is out of step with his world but can't work out why. He is an outsider who loves and respects the environment he doesn't belong to, and he has a hard time finding space to explore his own vision of life. Gwendolen is a good person who's been brought up to be selfish and domineering. Her tragic life sets her on a path to change, which I think is both believable and extremely poignant -- she demonstrates that a certain sort of human nature is formed for the better through suffering. Mordecai is one of literature's most challenging characters -- a true prophet marginalised by his people. I am affected every time by his conviction and his belief that the world can be changed for the better.

This novel is a long road that starts slowly (like most Victorian novels...), but in my view it will change your life if you're the sort of reader who wants to see questions that matter dealt with by real people who aren't perfect.

A complex story -- a long journey not for everyone

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I read Daniel Deronda many years ago as a 20 year old. i loved it then. Reading it now at 70 I am overwhelmed at it’s scope, elegant prose, it’s understanding of the human condition, and the unusual way she can hope back and forth in a characters mind and the reader is never lost. I have come to the conclusion that George Eliot is one of the most wonderful writers I have ever read. This book is sheer genius.

Daniel Deronda

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An interesting tale but the the authorial voice was a bit heavy going at times. Beautifully performed though.

A bit overblown

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This is conglomeration of parts feeling sometimes as if in overload but it is beautifully read and hold you through the long of narration

Find reading of Not the best of Eliot’s novels

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