description: 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 from head to foot'; her son Felix, with the 'instincts of a horse, not 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'.
language: English
title: The Way We Live Now
titlecomplete: The Way We Live Now
characters: Hamilton K. Fisker, Augustus Melmotte, Lady Carbury, Winifred Hurtle, Sir Felix Carbury
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 12891
places: England
publisher: Audio Book Contractors