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As Daniel Deronda opens, 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.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- George Eliot
- First published
- 1876
- Pages
- 642
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Small, Maynard, W. Blackwood and sons
- Editions
- 92
- Language
- yid, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780786113279
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“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.”
George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
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