The Way We Live Now

by Trollope, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780140433920
• ISBN10: 0140433929
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

This was the new metropolitan disease Trollope set out to brilliantly expose in The Way We Live Now. His milieux are the City's financial institutions, London's exclusive West End squares and drones clubs populated by, languorous aristocrats, all offering rich pickings for the unscrupulous speculator, whether in the marriage or the money market. Among the unscrupulous are the hack-writer Lady Carbury, or her son Felix and, above all, Melmotte, a financier of uncertain origins and Napoleonic ruthlessness, energy and charm, whose dramatic rise and fall dominates the novel.

Author Biography

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.

Frank Kermode is among our greatest contemporary critics. He has written and edited many works, among them The Sense of Ending and Shakespeare’s Language.

Table of Contents

Oxford World's Classics the Way We Live Now	p. i
Oxford World's Classics	p. ii
Introduction	p. vii
Three Editors	p. 1
Mentor	p. 59
Love-Sick	p. 68
the Bishop and the Priest	p. 144
Hetta Carbury Hears a Love Tale	p. 174
Mr. Melmotte is Pressed for Time	p. 421
Roger Carbury and His Two Friends	p. 430
Chap XLVII	p. 440
Which Shall It Be?	p. 1
the Results of Love and Wine	p. 11
the India Office	p. 31
Lord Nidderdale Tries His Hand Again	p. 59
Lady Monogram Prepares for the Party	p. 97
'so Shall Be My Enmity'	p. 145
Sir Felix Meddles with Many Matters	p. 183
John Crumb Falls into Trouble	p. 192
'Ask Himself'	p. 201
Melmotte Makes a Friend	p. 220
the Inquest	p. 355
Hetta's Sorrow	p. 375
Appendix: Trollope's Working Materials for the Way We Live Now	p. 475
Notes	p. 483
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