The tough-mindedness of the social satire in & its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollopes Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises of the life of 1870s London the loves of those drawn to & through the city & the career of Augustus Melmotte. Melmotte is one of the Victorian novels greatest & strangest creations & is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time. Trollopes 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. ...

At first savagely reviewed The Way We Live Now (1875) has since emerged as Trollopes masterpiece & the most admired of his works. When Trollope returned to England from the colonies in 1872 he was horrified by the immorality & dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he sat down to write The Way We Live Now his longest novel. Nothing escaped the satirists whip: politics finance the aristocracy the literary world gambling sex & much else. In this world of bribes & vendettas swindling & suicide in which heiresses are won like gambling stakes Trollopes characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury a 43-year-old coquette false from head to foot; her son Felix with the instincts of a horse not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog; & Melmotte the colossal figure who dominates the book a horrid big rich scoundrel.. .a bloated swindler.. .a vile city ruffian. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

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")."




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What if you had a second chance at first love? Susannah & Rob were childhood sweethearts. But as with most early love affairs they broke up moved on & now find themselves in very different places. & not entirely happy
- who is? A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives. What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance? Is fate telling you its time for a second chance.. .or should you simply walk away & let the past become ancient history? But Susannah & Rob just arent able to forget the way they were.. .and the world is about to discover the consequences of their reunion.
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It was in the middle of a snowstorm when Tiggy arrived at the remote house on Bodmin Moor. She was alone her partner tragically dead in an accident & Julia her dearest friend welcomed her into her warm & chaotic family. Tiggy started to live again & await the birth of her child but nearly thirty years later when her son is about to become a father himself the next generation discovers that there are secrets from the past which must be uncovered... ...

High in the wooded peaked mountains of Skeln the woodsman Dakeyras & his beautiful daughter Miriel live a life of harmonious solitude. Unbeknown to them a group of grim-eyed bloodthirsty warriors stalk the mountains. Men who have never known defeat to whom revenge & torture are meat & drink. For ten thousand in gold they are eager to kill the woodsman. Battle-hardened warriors all they have no fear of this task
- they should have. For Miriel is a woman of fire & iron skilled with bow & blade & taught her skills by one of the deadliest killers of all time... Her father Dakeyras better known as WAYLANDER THE SLAYER.
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A Wayne in a Manger"

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' My Decade in the Premier League' is Wayne's first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football
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My Decade in the Premier League is Wayne s first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football
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My Decade in the Premier League is Waynes first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football
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