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... ...

The Drenai King is dead
- murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy troops swarm into Drenai lands. Their orders are simple
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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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' 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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With superb skill & feeling Graham Greene retraces the experiences & encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness ...

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design" series

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