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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.
- Anthony Trollope
- 1875
A drama based on Anthony Trollope's novel about a mysterious European financier and his schemes in 1870s London. Watch the episodes, cast, reviews, trivia and more on IMDb.
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The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope 1875 novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark.
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
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.
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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.
The Way We Live Now. London, Chapman and Hall, 1875. 2V. Buy book. Download. Share this. Augustus Melmotte, about whose past little was known, established himself in London, bought a large house on Grosvenor Square and soon gained a reputation as “a great financier.”
