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Anthony Trollope: The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope: The Way We Live Now

„Trollope ​did not write for posterity,” observed Henry James. „He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.” Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. „I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,” Trollope said.
His 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 knew well the difficulties of dealing with editors, publishers, reviewers, and the public; his portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements.
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A következő kiadói sorozatokban jelent meg: Penguin Classics Penguin · Vintage Classics Vintage

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Vintage, Croydon, 2012
870 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780099528661
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Penguin, New York, 1995
816 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 0140433929

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