First Edition assumed. Belford Co., NY no date ca. 1890s. Good(minus)/None dust jacket condition.
The author's last novel, latent with a theme of Zionism and anticipating the state of Israel. Filmed three times, once as a silent film and twice for television.
In the novel, a Judaic scholar, Mordechai (based on Eliot's friend Emmanuel Deutsch) echoes Eliot's own Zionism, "The world will gain as Israel gains. For there will be a community in the van of the East which carries the culture and sympathies of every great nation in its bosom there will be a land set for a halting place of enmities, a neutral ground for the East.." Johnson notes the "..tragic ironies.." of this hope. The establishment of Israel has hardly pacified the Mid-East. At the end of the novel, the Messiah-like figure of Deronda prepares to restore "..a potential existence to my people, making them a nation again, giving them a national center, such as the English have, though they too are scattered over the face of the globe." Johnson points out that for the political generation of Balfour (who met Eliot the year after publication and whose Balfour Declaration led directly to the establishment of the state of Israel), Daniel Deronda was their introduction to the Jewish issue.
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