Daniel Deronda

ISBN-13: 9780140434279 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 896 str.

George Eliot

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Daniel Deronda is a startling and unexpected novel . . . it is a cosmic myth, a world history, and a morality play. A. S. Byatt

O autorze

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century