The Way We Live Now
'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. 'I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,' Trollope said. His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury,…
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Weitere Autoren: Brooks, David (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-375-75731-0
- EAN: 9780375757310
- Produktnummer: 9559176
- Verlag: Modern Lib
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 896 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D3.2 cm 630 g
- Auflage: Modern Library
- Gewicht: 630
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