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Daniel Deronda

Nov 24, 2025 1:54 PM

Author:George Eliot,A. S. Byatt

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot’s last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism. All Eliot’s great themes – moral choice, the role of chance, the interaction of characters with their environment – are worked out with her incomparable power, and many readers have agreed with F. R. Leavis that the first section of the novel is the greatest achievement in English fiction.

Reviews

Its beauty and power and the sheer pleasure that it gives are indestructible

—— Sunday Times

Poignant and beautiful...alive with a vividly unique vision of colliding cultures and enduring love

—— The Times

A blazing masterpiece... I cannot think of so moving a love story in modern fiction

—— Washington Star

One feels as if one had dug up buried treasure...an epic cultural change that seems more immediate than this morning's headlines... An extraordinary novel

—— New York Times

A beautiful novel

—— Paul Theroux

One of the most gripping and touching stories I have ever read

—— Peter Snow , Week

This is a gem

—— Mirror

Stands out from the mass of chick-fic like a poppy in a cornfield . . . Glitters with insight

—— Nova

Praise for Lisa Jewell

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Addictively readable

—— The Times

Terrific

—— Sunday Times

A joy . . . a fun summer read

—— Guardian

Tackles serious issues with humour - proving that chick-lit can be intelligent, interesting and huge fun

—— Sunday Express

A triumph

—— Hello

Top marks. Fantastic

—— Heat

Moving and intelligent

—— Independent

Magnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners

—— Cosmopolitan

Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction

—— Glamour

Fans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into

—— Sunday Telegraph

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