The Way We Live Now (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375757317 ISBN 13: 9780375757310

Verlag: Modern Library, 2001

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Book by Trollope Anthony

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"The Way We Live Now is the essence of Trollope. If he had written no other novel, it would have ensured his immortality."

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'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. 'I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,' Trollope said.

His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope knew well the difficulties of dealing with editors, publishers, reviewers, and the public; his portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements.

His picture of late-nineteenth-century England is a portrait of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. In The Way We Live Now Trollope combines his talents as a portraitist and his skills as a storyteller to give us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago.

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• Verlag: Modern Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375757317
• ISBN 13: 9780375757310
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 896