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Daniel Deronda

George Eliot,

Edmund White (Introduction)

Start date: January 13, 2019

Finish date: March 31, 2019

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Jan 22, 2017 Hugh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, read-2019

(Thursday) It may take me a while to review this - I am en route to Scotland for a walking weekend and in any case I'm not sure anything I say can do it justice.

(Sunday) Daniel Deronda is Eliot's last novel, and I have wanted to read it ever since reading Sophie and the Sybil by Patricia Duncker a couple of years ago. In that book Duncker reimagined the circumstances that led Eliot to create the book, and Sophie has much in common with the wilful and impulsive Gwendolen Harleth, one of Eliot's t ...more

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May 10, 2024 Nich added it · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. If the book were “Gwendolen” I think I would have liked it more.

“She has the charm and those who feared her were also fond of her. The fear and fondness being perhaps both heightened by what may be called the iridescence of her character”
Book I, Chapter IV

If Rex and Gwen and ended up together, I think I would’ve liked the book more.
“It was all morning to then within and without”
Book 1, Chapter V

Creation of Mr. Grandcourt - 10/10
700 pages of mostly drudgery was almost worth it just for the Gr ...more

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Feb 08, 2019 Jack rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I loved this book--but good God, I was unable to separate one fact from the story--and that is that the Holocaust and later the creation of Israel are the real-life epilogue to Daniel Deronda. The book really is a classic with great insights into human psychology and their motivation. From a plot perspective it has a great quest, the search for lost parents, even a romance. And for contemporaries it must have been a very thought-provoking work. Daniel Deronda is often cited as an influencer on t ...more

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