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The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope

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The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel by Anthony Trollope. It was regarded by many of Trollope’s contemporaries as his finest work.

The Way We Live Now is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s, and lashes at the pervading dishonesty of the age, commercial, political, moral, and intellectual.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .As there were fourteen ladies and only ten men, the banquet can hardly be said to have been very well arranged.  But those things cannot be done in the country with the exactness which the appliances of London make easy; and then the Longestaffes, though they were decidedly people of fashion, were not famous for their excellence in arranging such matters.  If aught, however, was lacking in exactness, it was made up in grandeur.  There were three powdered footmen, and in that part of the country Lady Pomona alone was served after this fashion; and there was a very heavy butler, whose appearance of itself was sufficient to give éclat to a family.  The grand saloon in which nobody ever lived was thrown open, and sofas and chairs on which nobody ever sat were uncovered.  It was not above once in the year that this kind of thing vas done at Caversham; but when it was done, nothing was spared which could contribute to the magnificence of the f&e. . . Read More

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”There are a thousand little silly softnesses which are pretty and endearing between acknowledged lovers, with which no woman would like to dispense, to which even men who are in love submit sometimes with delight; but which in other circumstances would be vulgar,— and to the woman distasteful. Ther

A great novel, perhaps Trollope's best. But it's not the one I usually recommend to those who have never read Trollope and want to try him. For one thing, it's very long. For another, it's pretty dark. There are a lot of characters in this novel, and almost every one of them views money as the summu

I listened to this as an audiobook. It took me almost 5 months, which perhaps makes you think that I did not enjoy it. In fact though, the opposite is the case. I loved every minute of it!

At a hundred chapters long, The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope’s longest stand-alone novel. I listened to i

Consisting of 100 chapters and nearly a 1,000 pages in length, this satirical saga was one of the last great Victorian serials, and it was savaged by critics when it first began being periodically published in 1875. After years in the British colonies, Trollope returned to London and the South East

The more that I read Victorian literature the more I am convinced that back in those days it was all about authors showing off. The educated public who could actually read and write were in much smaller proportion to the whole society than today. These people wanted to spend their hard earned shilli

I can see why people speak of The Way We Live Now (1875) as Trollope’s masterpiece. It’s quite superb. It’s a vast novel (a hundred chapters), but it never dragged in the least for me. Trollope is fairly light on description and leans hard on dialogue, with which he has a wonderfully deft touch.

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As good the fourth time as the first. A brilliant, engaging read, a fascinating exploration of money, power and class in the Victorian period.

Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," one of my favorite things anyone's ever said about a book. They're sortof surprisingly rare, right?

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