The next day, Gwendolen receives a letter from her mother telling her that the family is financially ruined and asking her to come home. Daniel finds himself attracted to, but wary of, the beautiful, stubborn, and selfish Gwendolen, whom he sees losing all her winnings in a game of roulette. The novel begins in late August 1865 with the meeting of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth in the fictional town of Leubronn, Germany. Daniel Deronda contains two main strains of plot, united by the title character. 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. The novel has been adapted for film three times, once as a silent feature and twice for television. Its mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with a sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kabbalistic ideas, has made it a controversial final statement of one of the greatest 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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