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Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot, Edmund White
by George Eliot, Edmund White
I normally try to take offensive stuff in books (especially older ones) with a grain of salt. However. I have to confess that I couldn't even finish Daniel Deronda. The anti-semitism was really bad in some places, and by the time I made it through the scene where Daniel had dinner with the Jewish family, I was just tired of reading it. So I quit. Call me a bad person, but I guess we shouldn't read what we don't want to read. =)
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Dec 23, 2008 06:40pm
It's a shame that you would label Mary Ann Evans as an anti-semite. She actually studied with a young jewish scholar who became the basis of Mordacai, and was very outspoken in her disgust of anti-sematic writing and behaviour. Daniel Deronda actually embraces his roots, but of course this wasn't til the end of the book.
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Deanne wrote: "It's a shame that you would label Mary Ann Evans as an anti-semite. She actually studied with a young jewish scholar who became the basis of Mordacai, and was very outspoken in her disgust of anti-..."Unfortunately I didn't get that far =) Thanks for the update, though, and the info about G.E.
