The Way We Live Now
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The Way We Live Now
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
|---|---|
| Published | 1875 |
| Pages | 896 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Augustus Melmotte arrives in London from nowhere, rumoured to be immensely rich, is put on the board of a railway that does not exist and elected to Parliament — and Trollope’s satire is aimed less at him than at everyone who decides not to ask questions while the share price rises. The great Victorian novel of financial fraud, and directly useful for anyone thinking about how capital gets allocated on reputation alone. |
The Way We Live Now
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published by the Substack writer in December 2025, in the Ages 13-99+ band under Fiction.
About this edition
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) wrote it after eighteen months abroad, as a deliberate state-of-the-nation attack on what he saw as a general commercial dishonesty. It was issued in twenty monthly parts from 1874 and as a book in 1875; poorly received at the time, it is now usually ranked among his best.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the 468-title curriculum this card came from; listed in the Ages 13-99+ band under Fiction.
- Anthony Trollope — the author.
- Fraud — what the novel anatomises.
- Greed — the mechanism the story turns on.
- Capitalism — the system under inspection.
- Institutions — the unwritten rules doing the real governing.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.