Daniel Deronda

With an essay by Barbara Hardy.

''What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance set beforehand. I seem to see all that can be - and I am tired and sick of it. And the world is all confusion to me''

George Eliot''s last, most controversial novel opens as the spoiled Gwendolen Harleth, poised at a roulette table about to throw away a small for...