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The Way We Live Now Volume 2

Author
Anthony Trollope
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
9 hours 37 minutes
ISBN
9781802564211
Published
25 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Victorian society
  • greed
  • corruption
  • finance
  • speculation
  • morality
  • social critique
  • ambition
  • irony
  • London elite

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Description

The web of deceit and ambition surrounding Augustus Melmotte tightens as his financial schemes grow more precarious. Characters like Paul Montague face mounting pressures from romantic entanglements and moral compromises, while Marie Melmotte rebels against her father’s control, yearning for independence. Trollope delves deeper into the greed and hypocrisy of Victorian society, exposing the fragility of reputations built on wealth and illusion. With sharp social critique and rich character development, this volume heightens the tension, exploring themes of corruption, loyalty, and the consequences of unchecked ambition.

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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