Eliot, George
Description
2 Cassettes, 3 hours
Dramatization
A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization of George Eliot's final controversial novel. From the moment he sees her at th
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e roulette table, the young and idealistic Daniel Deronda is drawn to Gwendolyn Harleth, as she is to him. But Gwendolyn -- outwardly alluring and vivacious, inwardly complex and unsettled -- 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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