# The Way We Live Now

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- Book: [The Way We Live Now](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-trollope/the-way-we-live-now) ([The Way We Live Now.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-trollope/the-way-we-live-now.md))
- Authors: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-trollope)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-392-0
- Pages: 816
- Published: 2005-12-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society, his web of deceit - which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie and Felix's mother, the pulp novelist Lady Carbury - begins to unravel. A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy.