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Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1876
Pages
Pages 810

At a roulette table in a German spa town, a young man cannot decide if the woman raking in her winnings is beautiful, and the question will not let him go. She is Gwendolen Harleth, clever and vain and terrified of being owned, who marries a man she despises for his name and his diamonds, already knowing of the mistress and children he has cast off to have her.

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