Trollope, Anthony
Summary: "Newly restored from the original manuscript and more than a quarter longer than the existing editions: one of the finest novels from one of the greatest English novelists is finally available in the form he intended. Trollope wrote The Duke's Children,his final Palliser novel, as a four-volume work but was required by his publisher to reduce it to three, necessitating the loss of nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2017
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Summary: 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. His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994