The way we live now / Anthony Trollope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalists and financiers--Fiction.

Capitalists and financiers.

Commercial crimes.

Commercial crimes--Fiction.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Satire.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 825 ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 1996.

Summary:

"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.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Way we live now.

ISBN:

067960183X

9780679601838

OCLC:

33206332