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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.
The Way We Live Now: With David Suchet, Matthew Macfadyen, Cillian Murphy, Paloma Baeza. Augustus Melmotte is a European-born city financier whose background is as mysterious as his business. Only weeks after his arrival in London, he announced a new venture and promises instant fortune.
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 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.
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.
A San Francisco stockjobber induced Melmotte to organize a London company for the promotion of a fictitious railroad, the South Central Pacific and Mexican, and to set up a dummy directorate of Englishmen of high social standing.
