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Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda
Nov 11, 2025 2:20 PM

Author:George Eliot,Terence Cave,Terence Cave

Daniel Deronda

As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish woman Mirah, he becomes involved in a search for her lost family and finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations and identity. 'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else', wrote George Eliot of her last and most ambitious novel, and in weaving her plot strands together she created a bold and richly textured picture of British society and the Jewish experience within it.

Reviews

The shifting viewpoints intensify the mystery, and, in true gothic literary style, reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor, first-novelist Toby-Potter's strong, dark narrative reveals the strangeness even in those who appear most "normal," how wild they all are and how close.

—— Booklist

An intricate tale that manages not to trip itself up, crisply narrated with a minimum of digression and a remarkable understatement that draws you into the action

—— Kirkus Reviews

Ambitious, dark, atmospheric and sometimes as painful as it is hypnotic-With its gothic atmosphere, sharply drawn characters and flowing, understated prose, this is an impressive debut

—— Portsmouth Herald

So far beyond and above the Average Novel. The writing is brilliant- You will not have read anything like this before- The smart person's beach read.

—— Ellen Moore , Good Books Lately

Strange. Dark. But could we put it down? No. Because the writing and the strange gothic story being told are as compelling as a campfire ghost story

—— Ann LaFarge
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