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The Way We Live Now

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099528661

  • Length: 880  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 596g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Way We Live Now

‘A tale of financial skulduggery reminiscent of recent city scandals’ Daily Telegraph

Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it into turmoil.

When the Melmottes arrive in London everyone agrees their manners are wanting, their taste is excerable and their lineage and background decidedly shadowy. But their money is far from revolting, and city society quickly makes allowances for the mysterious financier and his family. Soon hearts, minds and family savings are swept into the whirl of Augustus Melmotte's lavish parties and exciting investment plans - but is it all an elaborate swindle?

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099528661

  • Length: 880  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 596g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Trollope's masterpiece...its examination of how hopes of easy money can corrupt individuals and sections of society remains relevant today... It is all too easy to imagine the "Great Financier", Augustus Melmotte a shadowy, egotistical and tyrannical swindler, at the top of a contemporary investment bank.

    Observer

  • Dominating the narrative is the majestically dishonest Augustus Melmotte: a speculative railroad financier who buys an English society only too willing to sell itself...The darkest of Trollope's 47 novels.

    Guardian

  • A tale of financial skulduggery reminiscent of recent city scandals

    Daily Telegraph

  • His subtle depiction of relationships and the struggle to make decisions is unrivalled. He's so funny, so perceptive, so clear-sighted about the pursuit of money and power and status. Everyone with a pulse should read him.

    Francesca Simon, Guardian

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About the Author

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was one of the most widely enjoyed and prolific novelists of the nineteenth century. His books include the great Chronicles of Barsetshire, of which Barchester Towers is the second volume. Trollope worked for the Post Office for much of his adult life, combining postal and literary business as he travelled around the British Empire. He has been credited with the creation of the distinctive British pillar box.

Anthony Trollope

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