Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
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Daniel Deronda

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Ark

Unabridged: 31 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/08/2023

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Classic, Fantasy


Synopsis

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."
"Those who trust us educate us." George Eliot
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a thoughtful adult with an expanded vision of the world around her. The second is about Daniel Deronda, adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman who becomes fascinated with Jewish traditions when he meets an ailing Jewish philosopher named Mordecai and his sensitive sister, Mira.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. An awe-inspiring audiobook

About George Eliot

George Eliot is the masculine pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's magazine, followed by such novels as The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch. Her work was popular with critics and the public alike, and in later years her novels were especially valued for their detailed portrayals of rural English life.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on July 10, 2016

I finished this book about a month ago and have been letting my thoughts first simmer and then actually almost get pushed onto the back burner as our summer holidays began. Once I decided to look over my notes, I realized that a review might be quite overwhelming. Furthermore, the book did not neces......more

Goodreads review by Furqan on March 04, 2013

(Re-read from June 07 to June 12, 2012) I had forgotten what a hard work reading Daniel Deronda was. It has to be Eliot’s most challenging and overwhelming novel, yet such a great pleasure to read and re-read! It's enormously ambitious novel, broad in its scope, space, time and history. The setting i......more

Goodreads review by Kressel on July 09, 2016

Now here’s a book that combines two of my very favorite things: classic British romance with – YES! – Jewish themes. Marian Evans a/k/a George Eliot even went to Frankfurt am Main to do research for the book – in the times of no less than Rav Samson Rafael Hirsch! I think I’ve found a thesis topic i......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on December 30, 2017

This was one of those long stories that in the end were worth a read. I have previously read “Middlemarch” by George Eliot, but in many ways I find “Daniel Deronda” to be a different story that is interesting in many ways. Our main character, Gwendolen, is quite a character. She’s selfish, attention......more

Goodreads review by Sue on October 04, 2015

While ostensibly the story of one Daniel Deronda, a young man of (we learn) unknown parentage, raised to be an educated Englishman of worth and standing, this novel is also the tale of Gwendolen Harleth, and how their lives intersect. We are introduced to both early on and see them off and on over t......more