The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

Augustus Melmotte arrives in London from nowhere with a fortune nobody can trace and a railway scheme nobody has checked. Society takes his dinners, his daughter's hand is bid for by men who need her money, and his paper passes as cash. Greed anatomized at panorama scale.

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• influenced by ↑ Vanity Fair
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