The way we live now
By: Anthony Trollope ; introduction by David Brooks ; notes by Hugh Osborne.
Contributors: Osborne, Hugh.
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 864
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction; Commercial crimes -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. The story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope's portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements. In his kaleidoscopic depiction of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy, Trollope gives us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago, while speaking eloquently to some of the governing obsessions of our own age."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [827]-861).