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The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope

Start date: April 1, 2020

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Jul 29, 2011 John rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Very long, but one of the most readable and enjoyable books I have completed in a long time. It is in many respects an analysis of society's greed and financial corruption, which is of course still relevant. The characters are also brilliantly drawn and I repeatedly saw in many of them aspects of many people I know. ...more

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Sep 22, 2023 GONZA rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: posseduto

I thought it was particularly good and I don't know, maybe because I was also reading Dickens in the meantime and that it was much slower, the story captured me, despite the fact that I am well aware that it was a Feuilleton, at least for me, because I am certainly not in a position to make an examination of it aimed at highlighting the irony and criticisms that the author identified in the English society of the time.

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Jul 15, 2017 Grace rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mccrum-s-100-greatest, 2017-reads

#22 on the McCrum list. Eerily similar to the way we ARE living now with the public and politicians ignoring dishonesty when it suits them and accepting a lack of basic moral standards purely because of a person's power and monetary status . Giving it a strong 4 stars within the category. My first Trollope book. Enjoyable.

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