George Eliot - 'DANIEL DERONDA', 1982 UK, Penguin English Library, small softcover, 11 x 18cm tall, 903 pages, ISBN: 10140430202.  (Ex-retirement village copy)

CONDITION:  Good.  General rubbing & creasing to covers, inside has tanning to page edges, previous owner's stamp to half title page, spine fragile at front, else square & clean.

Eliot is the pen name for Mary Ann, later Marian, Evans, English novelist. George Eliot's last and most unconventional novel is considered by many to be her greatest. It is a richly imagined epic with a mysterious hero at its heart. Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage, and the very different lives of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, and her family. As Deronda uncovers the long-hidden secret of his own parentage, Eliot's moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to the Victorian novel...