Daniel deronda [electronic resource]. George Eliot.
Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centred, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life-changing. Damaged by their pasts, and alienated from the society around them, they must both discover the values that will give their lives meaning. George Eliot's powerful novel is set in a Britain whose ruling class is decadent and materialistic, its power likely to be threatened by a politically emergent Germany. The novel's exploration of sexuality, guilt, and the will to power anticipates later developments in fiction, and its linking of the personal and the political in a context of social and economic crisis gives it special relevance to the dominant issues of the twenty-first century.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501929465 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (37 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Jill Tanner. |
Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12 1210 Lexile. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 1036922 KB). |
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Subject: | Fiction. Classic Literature. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |