The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198705034 ISBN 13: 9780198705031

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

'Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.'

It is impossible to be sure who Melmotte is, let alone what exactly he has done. He is, seemingly, a gentleman, and a great financier, who penetrates to the heart of the state, reaching even inside the Houses of Parliament. He draws the English establishment into his circle, including Lady Carbury, a 43 year-old coquette and her son Felix, who is persuaded to invest in a notional railway business. Huge sums of money are at stake, as well as romantic happiness.

The Way We Live Now is usually thought Trollope's major work of satire but is better described as his most substantial exploration of a form of crime fiction, where the crimes are both literal and moral. It is a text preoccupied by detection and the unmasking of swindlers. As such it is a narrative of exceptional tension: a novel of rumour, gossip, and misjudgment, where every second counts. For many of Trollope's characters, calamity and exposure are just around the corner.

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Francis O'Gorman has edited Trollope's Framley Parsonage and The Duke's Children (with Katherine Mullin), Ruskin's Praeterita, and Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers for Oxford World's Classics. He has written widely on English literature, chiefly from 1780 to the present, and is currently editing Swinburne for OUP.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198705034
• ISBN 13: 9780198705031
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 848
• Herausgeber: O'Gorman Francis
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