The Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics)

Anthony Trollope

ISBN 10: 1853262552 / ISBN 13: 9781853262555

Published by Wordsworth Editions (edition Classic Edition), 2004

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics)
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions (edition Classic Edition)
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853262552
• ISBN 13: 9781853262555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Classic Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity gives this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte. Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest and strangest creations, and is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time. Trollope's 'Now' might, in the twenty-first century, look like some distant disenchanted 'Then', but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today.

Review

Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping lover (for whom she steals funds in order to elope) is a classic in the literature of money and a ripping good read as well.