’Trollopedidnotwriteforposterity,’observedHenryJames.’Hewrotefortheday,themoment;butthesearejustthewriterswhomposterityisapttoputintoitspocket.’ConsideredbycontemporarycriticstobeTrollope’sgreatestnovel,TheWayWeLiveNowisasatireoftheliteraryworldofLondoninthe1870sandaboldindictmentofthenewpowerofspeculativefinanceinEnglishlife.’IwasinstigatedbywhatIconceivedtobethecommercialprofligacyoftheage,’Trollopesaid.HisstoryconcernsAugustusMelmotte,aFrenchswindlerandscoundrel,andhisdaughter,towhomFelixCarbury,adoredsonoftheauthoressLadyCarbury,isinducedtoproposemarriageforthesakeofsecuringafortune.Trollopeknewwellthedifficultiesofdealingwitheditors,publishers,reviewers,andthepublic;hisportraitofLadyCarbury,impetuous,unprincipled,andunswervinglydevotedtoherownself-promotion,isoneofhisfinestsatiricalachievements.Hispictureoflate-nineteenth-centuryEnglandisaportraitofasocietyonthevergeofmoralbankruptcy.InTheWayWeLiveNowTrollopecombineshistalentsasaportraitistandhisskillsasastorytellertogiveuslifeasitwaslivedmorethanahundredyearsago.
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