# Daniel Deronda Author: Eliot, George, 1819-1880 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7469 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Daniel+Deronda+Eliot&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars’ unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is at Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but... ## Chapters - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 44](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/44/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 55](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/55/index.md) - [Chapter 50](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/50/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 54](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/54/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 57](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/57/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 72](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/72/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 59](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/59/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 48](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/48/index.md) - [Chapter 66](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/66/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 51](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/51/index.md) - [Chapter 67](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/67/index.md) - [Chapter 64](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/64/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 47](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/47/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 46](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/46/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 61](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/61/index.md) - [Chapter 56](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/56/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 65](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/65/index.md) - [Chapter 68](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/68/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 70](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/70/index.md) - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 45](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/45/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 53](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/53/index.md) - [Chapter 62](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/62/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 69](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/69/index.md) - [Chapter 71](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/71/index.md) - [Chapter 63](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/63/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 49](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/49/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 60](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/60/index.md) - [Chapter 58](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/58/index.md) - [Chapter 73](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/73/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 52](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/52/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/daniel-deronda-7469/chapters/1/index.md)