Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot
George Eliot's latest novel and greatest work, Daniel Deronda, compares the moral weakness of the English aristocracy to the selfless enthusiasm of Jewish nationalists. Overwhelmed by an unrelated marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harlet seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and self-sacrificing Danielle Deronda. But deeply moved by the discovery of the Jewish lineage, Deronda is too committed to his own cultural awakening in order to save Gwenden from despair.
