Format:
Book
Secondary title:
Penguin English library;
Author(s):
Eliot, George Hardy Barbara Nathan
Keyword(s):
Jews -- England -- Fiction.
Zionists -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Year:
1967
Pages:
903 p.
Publisher:
Baltimore
Publisher location:
Harmondsworth, Eng.
Accession number:
2197284
Label:
Box 110
Notes:
Penguin Books
18 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 30).
George Eliot ; edited with an introd. by Barbara Hardy.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: PZ3.E43; PR4658; Dewey: 823/.8
ISBN:
ISBN: 0140430202; 9780140430202 LCCN: 75-308776
Work type:
Fiction (fic)
Research notes:
Marginalia; numbers
Abstract:
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.