![]() ![]() The novel begins in late August 1865 1] with the meeting of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth in the fictional town of Leubronn, Germany. It has also been adapted for the stage, most notably in the 1960s by the 69 Theatre Company in Manchester with Vanessa Redgrave cast as the heroine Gwendolen Harleth.Daniel Deronda contains two main strains of plot, united by the title character. ![]() The novel has been adapted for film three times, once as a silent feature and twice for television. The work's mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with its sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kabbalistic ideas, has made it the controversial final statement of one of the most renowned of Victorian novelists. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. ![]()
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