The Way We Live Now
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 and Felix's mother, the pulp novelist Lady Carbury - begins to unravel. A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire abou…
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Weitere Autoren: Kermode, Frank (Anmerk.) / Kermode, Frank (Einf.) / Kermode, Frank (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-190561-7
- EAN: 9780141905617
- Produktnummer: 17830840
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 816 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 960 KB
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