The Way We Live Now

Name: The Way We Live Now
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781910660492

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 826 pages
ISBN: 9781910660492
Published: 15 January 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Victorian society
greed
corruption
finance
speculation
morality
social critique
ambition
irony
London elite

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Description

"The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope is a scathing social critique of the greed and dishonesty permeating Victorian society. Centered around the unscrupulous financier Augustus Melmotte, whose dubious business dealings captivate the elite of London, the novel exposes the moral decay at the heart of the affluent. As characters navigate a world of financial speculation and personal ambition, Trollope dissects themes of corruption, love, and societal pressures with keen observation and biting irony. A timeless exploration of wealth and power.

Author

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) spent his days as a Post Office surveyor and his early hours at the novel — a clerk's discipline that produced an English county of clergy and a later London of money. Barchester Towers is the church as weather: preferment, gossip, a bishop's wife. The Way We Live Now is the same eye on speculation and the social lie. He wrote without apology for the method. Church, vote, and marriage sit in the same air.

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