Daniel Derond. Eliot D.

The last novel by George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, first published in 1876, caused a whole storm of controversy in the English press - it would still be: after all, for the first time in the history of British literature, George Eliot affected the painful theme of the hidden anti -Semitism of English society full The secret of xenophobia and national prejudices.

But if the “national” theme of the novel today has already lost acute relevance, then the time has only benefited its second line - psychological. The story of the complex, multifaceted relations of young Daniel and the greatest love of his life - selfish, arrogant, authoritarian and hopelessly married beauty Gwendolin far ahead of Victorian literature with her ambiguity and even now looks surprisingly modern.