The Way We Live Now Part 1 Of 2 Author:Anthony Trollope Part One Of Two Parts 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 an indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. Having returned to England from the colonies in 1872, Trollope was distressed by the immorality and di... more »shonesty he found. In a fever of indignation, he sat down to write. Nothing escaped his notice: politics, finance, the aristocracy, the literary world, gambling, sex, and so on. This is the tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping lover. It is a literary classic - and a delightful read. "Trollope did not write for posterity. He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put in its pocket." (Henry James)« less