Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Good. 1995. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear with splits to spine extremities, old ink price to front endpaper. ; Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover artwork detail from Forfeits by Eyre Crowe. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 784 pages; A surprisingly mdern feeling satirical novel of financial, social and political corruption .

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'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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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7917
Title: The Way We Live Now
Author: Trollope, Anthony
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
ISBN 10: 1853262552
ISBN 13: 9781853262555
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Place of Publication: Ware, Hertfordshire, England
Date Published: 1995
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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