Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power... Více
Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. The story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope's portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements. In his kaleidoscopic depiction of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy, Trollope gives us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago, while speaking eloquently to some of the governing obsessions of our own age.
| Autor: | Anthony Trollope |
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| Vydavatel: | Saga Egmont |
| Vydáno: | 2021 |
| Počet stran: | 962 |
| Formáty: | ePUB, Mobi |
| Velikost: | ePUB (2 MiB), Mobi (3 MiB) |
| ISBN: | 999-00-038-3490-4 |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
