The Way We Live Now (Modern Library Classics)
ISBN-13:
9780375757310
ISBN-10:
0375757317
Edition:
New edition
Author:
Anthony Trollope
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Modern Library
Format:
Paperback
896 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780375757310
ISBN-10:
0375757317
Edition:
New edition
Author:
Anthony Trollope
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Modern Library
Format:
Paperback
896 pages
Summary
The Way We Live Now (Modern Library Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780375757310 and ISBN-10: 0375757317), written by authors
Anthony Trollope, was published by Modern Library in 2001.
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'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. 'I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,' Trollope said.
His 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 knew well the difficulties of dealing with editors, publishers, reviewers, and the public; his portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements.
His picture of late-nineteenth-century England is a portrait of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. In The Way We Live Now Trollope combines his talents as a portraitist and his skills as a storyteller to give us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago.
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