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The Way We Live Now
de Anthony Trollope
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+
- Librería
-
Castlethorpe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
2 volumes in original Victorian green cloth boards. The first edition in book form. Frontispiece to each volume and 38 wood-engraved plates (40 in total as asked for) by Luke Fildes; half-titles, slight damp-staining to vol. 1, vol. 1 lower hinge cracked but holding firm. Green cloth blocked in black and gilt, very slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little bumped, vol. 1 with some light mottling to covers, extremities rubbed, but a very good, bright set overall, [Sadleir 44].
Sinopsis
'A certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places ... ' This was the new metropolitan disease Trollope set out brilliantly to expose in The Way We Live Now . His milieux are the City's financial institutions, London's exclusive West End squares and drones' clubs populated by languorous aristocrats, all offering rich pickings for the unscrupulous speculator, whether in the marriage or the money market. Among the unscrupulous are the hack-writer Lady Carbury, her son Felix and, above all, Melmotte, a financier of uncertain origins and Napoleonic ruthlessness, energy and charm, whose dramatic rise and fall dominates the novel. The Way We Live Now , unpopular on its first appearance in 1874-5, is now widely recognized as Trollope 's masterpiece. An unorthodox satire with a happy ending, it explores decadence and change in what Frank Kermode calls 'a world increasingly more congenial to the speculator than to the gentleman'.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Butler Rare Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 41328
- Título
- The Way We Live Now
- Autor
- Anthony Trollope
- Ilustrador
- Luke Fildes
- Formato/Encuadernación
- The spine ends and corners are a little bumped on vol. 1, some light mottling to covers, extremities rubbed. Overall good, brigh
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Chapman and Hall
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1875
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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