The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now
ISBN-10
0192835610
ISBN-13
9780192835611
Series
The Way We Live Now
Category
Avarice
Pages
494
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Anthony Trollope

Description

"When Trollope returned to England from the colonies in 1872 he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he sat down to write The Way We Live Now, his longest novel. Nothing escaped the satirist's whip: politics, finance, the aristocracy, the literary world, gambling, sex, 'the intrigues of girls who want to get married ... the luxury of youngmen who prefer to remain single ... the pufing propensities of authors who desire to cheat the public into buying their volumes'. In this world of bribes and vendettas, swindling and suicide, in which heiresses are won like gambling stakes. Trollope's characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury, a 43-year-old coquette, 'false form head to foot'; her son Felix, with 'the instincts of a horse, ont approaching the higher sympathies of a dog'; and Melmotte, the colossal figure who dominates the book, a 'horrid, big, rich scoundrel ... a bloated swindler ... a vile city ruffian'. At first savagely reviewed, The Way We Live Now has since emerged as Trollope's masterpiece and the most admired of his works."--Back cover.

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