He is the ward of an aristocratic millionaire and knows little about his own birth. The novel actually brings two separate streams of narrative together and they are connected by means of the character of Daniel Deronda, a wealthy young man whose altruistic nature leads him into all manner of troubles. Whatever the controversies and difficulties that readers had and perhaps still have with the book, it remains one of the most hard hitting and objective portrayals of race, identity, politics, Imperialism, gender bias, religious tolerance and prejudice. In 1889, many Jewish people also called for a revision of the book. However, it was not just the non-Jewish people who were offended. There were only a few murmurs when it first came out, but later, they became a full fledged outpouring of resentment against what many readers felt was an extremely controversial stand on Jewish, proto-Zionist and Kabbalistic ideas. Published in 1876, Daniel Deronda is also the only one in which the great Victorian novelist portrays contemporary society of her own time. Thus opens the last and probably the most controversial of George Eliot's novels. She begins to lose heavily and leaves the casino. A young man watches, fascinated from afar.
A lovely young woman gambling at a casino in Leubronn, Germany.
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