


ISBN-13: 9780486815763
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ISBN-13: 9781545137208
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ISBN-13: 9781979297240
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ISBN-13: 9780198705031
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'A tale of financial skulduggery reminiscent of recent city scandals' Daily Telegraph Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it into turmoil. ...
ISBN-13: 9780486815763
Trade paperback
ISBN-13: 9781545137208
Trade paperback
ISBN-13: 9781979297240
Trade paperback
ISBN-13: 9780198705031
2nd Revised editionPaperback
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Sep 17, 2009
I read "The Way We Live Now" on the recomendation of Jon Meachan, editor of Newsweek, who led an effort to develop a list of 50 books "that make sense of our times." Trollopes's 1875 satirical novel was number one on their list. It describes the financial and moral crisis of Victorian England, a crisis that is very similar to what we are going through today in the U.S. "The Way We Live Now" is a long book with 100 chapters because it was orginally written for serialization in a magazine, a common practice for writers of that era. Nonetheless, it moves quickly and has a surprising number of twists in the plot. I found it a very good read.