The complete online text of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.

George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social document but also one of the greatest novels in the his...

The most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left out t...

The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left out...

It occasionally happens that a book written to explain an earlier age takes on a new and startling relevance in a later one. This is the case with George Eliot's last and most ambitious novel, Daniel Deronda. Published in parts between 1873 and 1876,...

Daniel Deronda's focus turned away from the home and toward an abstracted community known also as the homeland. The domestic community of a household can be abstracted but can also be experienced first hand. The nation's domestic community, however, can only be imagined. This...

It's been a big year for Hugh Dancy, the actor anointed by media as the next British heartthrob about to storm our shores.Dancy is appearing in his first Broadway play, starring as the tortured Capt. Stanhope in the British classic "Journey's End." He also has...