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The Way We Live Now
by Trollope, Anthony
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 067960183X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679601838
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About This Item
The Modern Library, 1996. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Thus, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($21.00 price intact). Published by The Modern Library, 1996. Octavo. Gray boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. An excellent copy of this Modern Library edition of this satirical novel. 825 pages. ISBN: 9780679601838. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Synopsis
'A certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places ... ' This was the new metropolitan disease Trollope set out brilliantly to expose in The Way We Live Now . His milieux are the City's financial institutions, London's exclusive West End squares and drones' clubs populated by languorous aristocrats, all offering rich pickings for the unscrupulous speculator, whether in the marriage or the money market. Among the unscrupulous are the hack-writer Lady Carbury, her son Felix and, above all, Melmotte, a financier of uncertain origins and Napoleonic ruthlessness, energy and charm, whose dramatic rise and fall dominates the novel. The Way We Live Now , unpopular on its first appearance in 1874-5, is now widely recognized as Trollope 's masterpiece. An unorthodox satire with a happy ending, it explores decadence and change in what Frank Kermode calls 'a world increasingly more congenial to the speculator than to the gentleman'.
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- Southampton Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 147685
- Title
- The Way We Live Now
- Author
- Trollope, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 067960183X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679601838
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
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