The Way We Live Now
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616401801 (161640180X)
Publish date: April 6th 2010
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Pages no: 414
Edition language: English
”There are a thousand little silly softnesses which are pretty and endearing between acknowledged lovers, with which no woman would like to dispense, to which even men who are in love submit sometimes with delight; but which in other circumstances would be vulgar,— and to the woman distasteful. Ther...
This is Trollope at his best - Dickens with all the social urgency and none of the sentimentality. As burningly relevant now as it was then - banking scandals and all. A must-read.
Although this book includes the required Victorian love story, The Way We Live Now focuses more on the actions of Augustus Melmotte, a foreign financier who is turning heads of London society, with his amazing wealth and ability to make money. But actually, Melmotte is swindling investors by sellin...
Why: I know this a darker Trollope, where the characters all hunger after mammon in an unseemly way (is there any other way to do so?). It seems appropriate in these times, after all the greed and self-promotion that brought us the current economic collapse. This review (http://www.goodreads.com/rev...
Classic Trollopian view of greed, envy, and lust in Victorian England. Rather depressing overall, but nevertheless a great novel by one of my favorites.
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