From the moment he sees her at the roulette table, Daniel Deronda is drawn to Gwendolyn Harleth. But Gwendolyn is forced by circumstance into an oppressive marriage with the harsh aristocratic Henleigh Grandcourt. Daniel becomes torn between her and Mirah Lapidoth, a young Jewish woman he saves from suicide, and, uncertain of his parentage, becomes increasingly driven to discover who and what is.
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