The Way We Live Now
Trollope, Anthony1995
Book
Total copies: 10
This work is an intricate novel of financial, social and political corruption. A procession of the good, the bad and the ugly is paraded before the reader including Augustus Melmotte, the enigmatic banker and the worldly and cynical Sir Felix Carbury. With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte. Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest and strangest creations, and is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time. Trollope's 'Now' might, in the twenty-first century, look like some distant disenchanted 'Then', but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today.
Main title:
The Way We Live Now / Anthony Trollope ; introduction and notes by Peter Merchant.
Author:
Trollope, Anthony, authorMerchant, Peter, writer of added commentary
Work:
Imprint:
Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 1995.
Collation:
800 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Wordsworth Classics
ISBN:
9781853262555
Language:
English
BRN:
283299