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Susan’s Bookshelves (Daniel Deronda by George Eliot)

Daniel Deronda (1876) came four years after Middlemarch and was George Eliot’s last novel. She died in 1880, aged 61. I hadn’t read it for many years and was fascinated to get back to this engaging study of what it means to be Jewish, as topical now as it was 148 years ago. The plot […]

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