Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published
in 1876. It was the last novel she completed, coming after Middlemarch and Felix
Holt and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its
mixture of social satire and moral searching with a sympathetic rendering of
Jewish proto-Zionist and Kaballistic ideas has made it a controversial final
statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists.

The novel has been filmed three times, once as a silent feature and twice for
television. It has also been adapted for the stage, most notably in a production
in the 1960s by the 69 Theatre Company in Manchester with Vanessa Redgrave as
Gwendolen Harleth.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.