The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope, Francis O'Gorman (University of Leeds)

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Worlds Classics
28 July 2016

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.'It is impossible to be sure who Melmotte is, let alone what exactly he has done. He is, seemingly, a gentleman, and a great financier, who penetrates to the heart of the state, reaching even inside the Houses of Parliament. He draws the English establishment into his circle, including Lady Carbury, a 43 year-old coquette and her son Felix, who is persuaded to invest in a notional railway business. Huge sums of money are at stake, as well as romantic happiness.

The Way We Live Now is usually thought Trollope's major work of satire but is better described as his most substantial exploration of a form of crime fiction, where the crimes are both literal and moral. It is a text preoccupied by detection and the unmasking of swindlers. As such it is a narrative of exceptional tension: a novel of rumour, gossip, and misjudgment, where every second counts. For many of Trollope's characters, calamity and exposure are just around the corner.

By: Anthony Trollope
Edited by: Francis O'Gorman (University of Leeds)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9780198705031
ISBN 10: 0198705034
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 848
Publication Date: 28 July 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Francis O'Gorman has edited Trollope's Framley Parsonage and The Duke's Children (with Katherine Mullin), Ruskin's Praeterita, and Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers for Oxford World's Classics. He has written widely on English literature, chiefly from 1780 to the present, and is currently editing Swinburne for OUP.