A new edition of Eliot's last great novel, with a new, wide-ranging introduction by K.M. Newton, fuller chronology and revised explanatory notes Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's last great novel, charts the intertwined lives of spirited Gwendolen Harleth and the idealistic Deronda. Both are damaged by their pasts, and alienated from the society around them, in a story set against the backdrop of economic crisis, political uncertainty, and proto-Zionism.