Daniel Deronda / [print]
George Eliot ; introduction by Edmund White ; notes by Hugh Osborne.
- Modern Library pbk. edition.
- New York : Modern Library, (c)2002.
- xxv, 796 pages ; 21 cm.
- The Modern Library classics .
- Modern Library classics. .
Includes bibliographical references.
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.