The Way We Live Now
4.3
Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialisation. It was regarded by many of Trollope's contemporaries as his finest work. One of his longest novels (it contains a hundred chapters), The Way We Live Now is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s, and lashes at the pervading dishonesty of the age, commercial, political, moral, and intellectual. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts ...
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Author
Anthony Trollope
Pages
752
Publisher
Chapman and Hall
Published Date
1875
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"Can’t we find a parallel for the booming, ignorant businessman Melmotte these days…<br/><br/>I give this book five because it kept me along through 700+ pages, and skipped along characters without really valuing any of them.<br/><br/>Not to say that Trollope isn’t wonderful at characterization, but rather, there is no particular favorite or fixed point for reader or author as we travel through the rooms of the Melmotte and Carbury Families, the Longestaffes, the Beargarden, Mrs. Hurtle, Paul Montague, Ruby Ruggles, and John Crumb.<br/><br/>I have to wonder if the Great South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway ever was truly built…."
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