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Pros

The novel is long, but this reader was never bored. David brooks provides an introduction that is brief and to the point, and the price is not to be beaten. The stories are all enjoyable. Many individual stories running in parallel.

The way we live now is one of the great novels of the nineteenth century. It is amazing that it was written 100 years before robert maxwell as the main character is maxwell to a tee. Modern library editions are my first choice now for classic novels.

Winfred hurtle, who once had a relationship with paul montague (who later marries henrietta carbury), and hamilton fisker, the american partner of melmotte in the south central and pacific railway. It is so hard not to tumble into scylla when you are ...  Read More

The character of mr. Shenanigan is reminiscent of the modern financial flim-flam man. The characters are memorable and reminiscent of financial scandals today. English aristocrats and landed gentry provide further amusement, as do politics and gamblin...  Read More

Roger carbury is the touchstone of all that is right and clear-thinking. Henrietta (hetta) is in love with roger’s young friend and protégé paul montague.



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The title of the book has become a modern-day catchphrase, though it has become so generalised that one scarcely knows what is meant by it now. The new york times (whose archives are thoroughly searchable back to 1851) had to say about trollope in the...  Read More

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Finally trollope seems to throw his emotional lot in with the americans in the novel those who are citizens already and those...  Read More


Although written aa century ago its still very relevant


Reviews of the book were poor and popularity with the reading public waned after its publication


The questions regarding violence and sex must be considered with the period in which the book was written 1875

Price


David brooks provides an introduction that is brief and to the point and the price is not to be beaten


Trollope is a keen observer of human nature its follies and triumphs

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Very fun read if you enjoy historical fiction written in the 1800s

Competitiveness


It was a loooong book but well worth reading


Like dickens and other victorian novelists trollope wrote many of his novels for periodical publication and so they were first ...  Read More

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  • This product had a total of 874 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 7 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This book literally includes 100 chapters and is closer by contemporary standards to a soap opera than to a written work


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A reader unfamiliar with anthony trollope may be surprised to see how he is much more modern than dickens


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    In this novel for example one woman is divorced and another actually complements her revenues by becoming a writer


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This passage about fisker speaks to me fisker was not only unscrupulous himself but he had a thorough contempt for scruples in others


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    According to his theory of life nine hundred and ninetynine men were obscure because of their scruples whilst the thousandth man predominated and cropped up into the splendour of commercial wealth because he was free from such bondage


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    He was anxious that his bond should be good and his word equally so


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    But the work of robbing mankind in gross by magnificently false representations was not only the duty but also the delight and the ambition of his life


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Good people are still there like roger carbury and john crumb but they alas are the obscure ones

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