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Run a Quick Search on "Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope and John Sutherland to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Way We Live Now"Browse more products related to "Anthony Trollope and John Sutherland"Review"I would recommend 'The Way We Live Now' - Trollope's 33d novel, written in 1873 and set in that same year. I would recommend it because it is very long (Trollope's longest) and very contemporary, despite its baronets and squires and rustics, and despite its penniless young women whose chief employment is husband-seeking, and its penniless young lords whose chief employment is heiress-hunting. If all this sounds as far as possible from the way we live now, think again; or else wait and see." "Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy...of the writers who have helped the heart of man to know itself. His great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation of the usual." "[A] likeness of the face which society wears today." First lineLet the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. AnnotationThe mysterious financier Augustus Melmotte buys a great house in London, where he succeeds in persuading many prominent Londoners to invest in his fictitious railroad, the South Central Pacific and Mexican. Melmotte also attempts to secure for himself a place in the House of Commons and to marry his daughter to a titled aristocrat. His daughter, however, falls for the rakish Felix Carbury and steals the money to finance their elopement; Felix gambles it away and jilts her, and she marries an American speculator as crooked as her father. Melmotte's various schemes and forgeries lead to his unmasking and, in one of Trollope's most powerful scenes, he kills himself. Although unpopular and considered almost unbearably cynical when it first appeared in 1875, THE WAY WE LIVE NOW is widely considered Trollope's masterpiece--a scathing indictment of the materialism and greed that permeated the Victorian Age, and a devastating satire of the effects of crass commercialism on politics, the upper classes, the literary world, marriage, and financial institutions. It also contains the memorable portrait of Lady Carbury, an unscrupulous writer who will do anything to promote her books. If You Enjoy "Way We Live Now (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Way We Live Now (Paperback)" by Anthony Trollope (Author) and ...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary BestsellersFiction & Literature Bestselling Books
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