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A 2001 adaptation of Anthony Trollope's novel about a European financier and his schemes in 1870s London. See cast, crew, episodes, reviews, trivia and more on IMDb.
- (3.3K)
- 2001-11-11
- Drama, Romance
- 75
The American Senator. The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts. The novel is Trollope's longest, comprising 100 chapters, and is particularly rich in sub-plot.
- Anthony Trollope
- 1875
The Way We Live Now, novel by Anthony Trollope, published serially in 1874–75 and in book form in 1875. This satire of Victorian society was one of Trollope’s later and more highly regarded works. The novel chronicles the fleeting fame of Augustus Melmotte, a villainous financier of obscure origins.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4.08. 13,366 ratings1,206 reviews. 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 ...
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Jun 10, 2002 · The Way We Live Now was first published in twenty monthly parts from February, 1874, to September, 1875, and in book form by Chapman and Hall in 1875. Both the monthly parts and the Chapman and Hall first edition contained the forty illustrations included in this e-book.
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.
Marie, as a reputed heiress of millions, was sought in marriage by several highly placed but uniformly impecunious young noblemen. She fell in love with the most worthless of them all, Sir Felix Carbury, planned in elopement with him and stole enough of her father’s money to finance it, but Sir Felix gambled away the money and failed to keep ...
