The Way We Live Now
Author: Anthony Trollope
“Trollope did not write for posterity,” observed Henry James. “He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.” Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope’s greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative f….Read More
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