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The Way We Live Now
by TROLLOPE, Anthony
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1875. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (24 cm). In original green publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine; brown coated endpapers; two pages of ads at front and 8 pp of Harper & Brothers' Summer Book-List at rear; [1] 2-4 [5-11] 12-408pp; two wood-engraved frontispieces and numerous in-text wood engravings by Lionel Grimston Fawkes; text in double columns. With the ticket of "Henry H. Van Siclen, Bibliophile." Clean and tight, though board edges are rubbed, cloth is somewhat dulled, and front hinge is cracked but holding; a Very Good copy.
Considered to be one of Trollope's most significant novels, a satirical examination of the financial and political depression of the 1870s.
Considered to be one of Trollope's most significant novels, a satirical examination of the financial and political depression of the 1870s.
Synopsis
'A certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places ... ' This was the new metropolitan disease Trollope set out brilliantly to expose in The Way We Live Now . His milieux are the City's financial institutions, London's exclusive West End squares and drones' clubs populated by languorous aristocrats, all offering rich pickings for the unscrupulous speculator, whether in the marriage or the money market. Among the unscrupulous are the hack-writer Lady Carbury, her son Felix and, above all, Melmotte, a financier of uncertain origins and Napoleonic ruthlessness, energy and charm, whose dramatic rise and fall dominates the novel. The Way We Live Now , unpopular on its first appearance in 1874-5, is now widely recognized as Trollope 's masterpiece. An unorthodox satire with a happy ending, it explores decadence and change in what Frank Kermode calls 'a world increasingly more congenial to the speculator than to the gentleman'.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54234
- Title
- The Way We Live Now
- Author
- TROLLOPE, Anthony
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1875
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction; Literature Before 1900;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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