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The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope
Frank Kermode
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Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society, his web of deceit - which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie and Felix's mother, the pulp novelist Lady Carbury - begins to unravel. A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy.
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Kindle Book

  • Release date: April 28, 1994

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  • ISBN: 9780141905617
  • Release date: April 28, 1994

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780141905617
  • File size: 987 KB
  • Release date: April 28, 1994

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1080
Text Difficulty:7-9

Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society, his web of deceit - which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie and Felix's mother, the pulp novelist Lady Carbury - begins to unravel. A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy.
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Classic Literature Fiction