Gwendolen

I was winning until I met your gaze...

Gambling at the roulette tables of the Kursaal, Gwendolen Harleth glances up to meet Daniel Deronda''s arresting stare. Striking, selfish and wilful, she is at that moment the mistress of her destiny. Years later, the flawed heroine and true protagonist of Eliot''s last great novel writes her confessional to the man whose ever-imagined gaze has prevailed thro...