Daniel Deronda
Author: George Eliot
she felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win much’,,Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centred, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer t….Read More
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