The self-searching Gwendolen Harleth's disastrous marriage is intertwined with the idealist Daniel Deronda's discovery of his Jewish heritage and vocation.
Books mentioned in Daniel Deronda (4)
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “…who hardly knew of any evil closer to them than what lay in history-books, and dramas, and would at once associate a lovely Jewess with Rebecca in "Ivanhoe," besides thinking that everything they did at Deronda's request would be done for their idol, Hans.”
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Bull's company fits me 'wie die Faust ins Auge.”
Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso: “I know nothing of Tasso except the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, which we read and learned by heart at school."”
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb: “She was giving forth with charming distinctness the delightful Essay of Elia, “The Praise of Chimney-Sweeps,” and all were smiling over the “innocent blackness,””
Books that mention Daniel Deronda (5)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “grabbed something—anything, The House of Mirth, Daniel Deronda—to restore herself to sanity”
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: “I was lying on a piece of old tarpaulin reading, as I say, Daniel Deronda, when Ruth came wandering over and sat down beside me.”
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: “an extensive psychological portrait of the heroine in Daniel Deronda, the self-centered Gwendolen Harleth”
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: Epigraph: "Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives..." —GEORGE ELIOT, DANIEL DERONDA
Normal People by Sally Rooney: “(epigraph) It is one of the secrets in that change of mental poise which has been fitly named conversion, that to many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a peculiar influence, subduing them into receptiveness. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda”