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The way we live now /
Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. The story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoun...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Auckland, N.Z.] :
Floating Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. The 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's portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements. In his kaleidoscopic depiction of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy, Trollope gives us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago, while speaking eloquently to some of the governing obsessions of our own age. |
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| Notas: | Archived by the National Library of New Zealand. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 8, 2010). Novel. Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 electronic document (1483 pages)) |
| ISBN: | 9781775414247 1775414248 |