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The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): *“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and every bit as addictive as HBO’s hit series “Succession”. The novel’s anti-hero, Augustus Melmotte, is one of the great portraits of the businessman as ogre—a “horrid, big, rich scoundrel”, “a bloated swindler” and “vile city ruffian” who bears an uncanny resemblance to the late Robert Maxwell (and to living figures who had best not be named for legal reasons). Despite his foreign birth and mysterious past, Melmotte forces his way into British society by playing on the greed of bigwigs who despise him yet compete for his favours. He buys his way into the House of Commons; he floats a railway company that is ostensibly designed to build a line between Mexico and America but is really a paper scheme for selling shares. The Ponzi scam eventually collapses, exposing Britain’s great commercial empire for a greed-fuelled racket and its high society as a hypocritical sham. “The Way We Live Now” is an excellent place to begin an affair with Trollope. It is relatively short by his standards and

Who reads The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics)?

Author

Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780142437131

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.04 / 5 (50 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13