Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anthony Trollope's 1875 novel, "The Way We Live Now", is a biting satire of the wealthy and powerful in Victorian England. Augustus Melmotte, a wealthy financier moves to London and begins to gather investors for an American railway venture. When his daughter Marie takes up with the dissolute gold-digging aristocrat Felix Carbury, Melmotte steps in to block the union. Multiple subplots involving schemes to move up in society and thwart others from doing the same constitute a panorama of greed and desperation that makes The Way We Live Now Trollope's masterpiece.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dreamscape Media
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781974908714
• Artikelnr.: 54700213

Autorenporträt

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was one of the most successful English novelists during the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, but he also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues as well as other topical matters.