| Categoría | Clásicos universales |
| ISBN | 9781853262555 |
| Peso | 0.60 |
| Idioma | Inglés |
| Editorial | Wordsworth |
| Autor | Trollope, Anthony |
| Tapa | Rústica |
| Año | 2004 |
| Ciudad | Londres |
| Páginas | 800 |
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 daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope's portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements. In his kaleidoscopic depiction of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy, Trollope gives us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago, while speaking eloquently to some of the governing obsessions of our own age.