The Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics)
by Anthony Trollope
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Author: Anthony TrollopeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-02-05
ISBN: 1853262552
Number of pages: 800
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
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Summary: 5 Stars
Picture a world in which a shadowy entreprenour rubs shoulders with the great and powerful, while hard-driving yuppies stop at nothing to be associated with his schemes. Sounds like Ron Reagan's "Morning in America," doesn't it? Except it is Victorian London. The entreprenour is Auguste Melmotte. The yuppies are the scions of great and small families hurling themselves at his daughter, his phantasmagorical railway (between Salt Lake City and Vera Cruz yet!) company, and the hem of his cloak. And the book is Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. Like all of Trollope's books, this one is as well crafted as any by Eliot or Thackeray; yet the theme and handling are strikingly modern. I came to this book by way of the Barsetshire novels with their depiction of rural clergy. I should have read THE WAY WE LIVE NOW first.
Especially worth noting are the surprisingly full characterizations of Marie Melmotte, daughter of the financier, who is courted by her emotional inferiors, and Roger Carbury, a rural landowner who holds aloof from the fray and helps several of the others pick up the pieces from their lives.
The only negative is the book's anti-semitism, though it makes several attempts to lift itself from this charge.
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