The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics) - Tapa blanda

Trollope, Anthony

 
9780198705031: The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0198705034 ISBN 13: 9780198705031
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2016

Sinopsis

'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.

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Acerca del autor

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.


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OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2016
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0198705034
ISBN 13 
9780198705031
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
848
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O'Gorman Francis
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9780140433920: The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics)

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ISBN 10:  0140433929 ISBN 13:  9780140433920
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 1994
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