Way We Live Now

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The Way We Live Now" is Anthony Trollopes radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism edited with an introduction & notes by Frank Kermode in " Penguin Classics". Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility
- using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society his web of deceit
- which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie & Felixs mother the pulp novelist Lady Carbury
- begins to unravel. A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. Frank Kermodes introduction explores the real-life inspiration for Trollopes masterly satire. This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes. Anthony Trollope (1815-82) had an unhappy childhood characterised by a stark contrast between his familys high social standing & their comparative poverty. He wrote his earliest novels while working as a Post Office inspector but did not meet with success until the publication of the first of his Barsetshire novels " The Warden" (1855). As well as writing over forty novels including such popular works as " Can You Forgive Her?" (1865) " Phineas Finn" (1869) " He Knew He Was Right" (1869) & " The Way We Live Now" (1875) Trollope is credited with introducing the postbox to Engl&. If you enjoyed " The Way We Live Now" you might like William Makepeace Thackerays " Vanity Fair" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Trollopes masterpiece.. .its examination of how hopes of easy money can corrupt remains relevant today". (" Observer")."