At a roulette table in a German spa, Daniel Deronda watches the beautiful, self-willed Gwendolen Harleth lose, and the two lives keep crossing thereafter. Gwendolen faces family ruin and a marriage to the cold aristocrat Henleigh Grandcourt, while Deronda, raised as an English gentleman without knowing his parentage, rescues the young singer Mirah from the Thames and is drawn into London’s Jewish community.
Eliot’s last and most ambitious novel, remarkable for its sympathetic treatment of Jewish life and identity. Download the free EPUB.