The Way We Live NowThe Way We Live Now—regarded by many as Anthony Trollope’s greatest novel—encompasses in its broad scope much of the business, political, social, and literary life of 1870s London. At its centre is the larger-than-life figure of Augustus Melmotte, a financier of uncertain background who rises to great heights over a financial speculation scheme involving plans for a railway in America. “I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,” Trollope wrote of this novel, and the work remains one of the world’s most ambitious fictionalized critiques of capitalism. It also provides unique insight into the operation of the late-Victorian literary world, into the dynamics of anti-Semitism in the Victorian period, and into a number of other subjects of continuing interest. More than that, it remains among the most readable of Trollope’s many novels. The Way We Live Now was initially published in serialized form in monthly shilling parts that appeared between February 1874 and September 1875. The full work was first published in book form in 1875, in two volumes. That same year a one-volume edition was published by Harper & Brothers in the United States. Both 1875 publications in book form included the illustrations that Lionel Grimshaw Fawkes had prepared for the publication in serial form; it is the one-volume Harper & Brothers edition that is reproduced here. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them. |
Contents
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CHAPTER VII MENTOR | 35 |
CHAPTER VIII LOVESICK | 38 |
CHAPTER LII THE RESULTS OF LOVE AND WINE | 215 |
CHAPTER LIII A DAY IN THE CITY | 219 |
CHAPTER LIV THE INDIA OFFICE | 223 |
CHAPTER LV CLERICAL CHARITIES | 228 |
CHAPTER LVI FATHER BARHAM VISITS LONDON | 230 |
CHAPTER LVII LORD NIDDERDALE TRIES HIS HAND AGAIN | 235 |
CHAPTER LVIII MR SQUERCUM IS EMPLOYED | 238 |
CHAPTER LIX THE DINNER | 243 |
CHAPTER IX THE GREAT RAILWAY TO VERA CRUZ | 42 |
CHAPTER X MR FISKERS SUCCESS | 46 |
CHAPTER XI LADY CARBURY AT HOME | 51 |
CHAPTER XII SIR FELIX IN HIS MOTHERS HOUSE | 56 |
CHAPTER XIII THE LONGESTAFFES | 58 |
CHAPTER XIV CARBURY MANOR | 63 |
CHAPTER XV YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT I AM HIS MOTHER | 66 |
CHAPTER XVI THE BISHOP AND THE PRIEST | 71 |
CHAPTER XVII MARIE MELMOTTE HEARS A LOVE TALE | 77 |
CHAPTER XVIII RUBY RUGGLES HEARS A LOVE TALE | 81 |
CHAPTER XIX HETTA CARBURY HEARS A LOVE TALE | 84 |
CHAPTER XX LADY POMONAS DINNERPARTY | 89 |
CHAPTER XXI EVERY BODY GOES TO THEM | 91 |
CHAPTER XXII LORD NIDDERDALES MORALITY | 97 |
CHAPTER XXIII YES IM A BARONET | 100 |
CHAPTER XXIV MILES GRENDALLS TRIUMPH | 105 |
CHAPTER XXV IN GROSVENOR SQUARE | 108 |
CHAPTER XXVI MRS HURTLE | 111 |
CHAPTER XXVII MRS HURTLE GOES TO THE PLAY | 116 |
CHAPTER XXVIII DOLLY LONGESTAFFE GOES INTO THE CITY | 120 |
CHAPTER XXIX MISS MELMOTTES COURAGE | 122 |
CHAPTER XXX MR MELMOTTES PROMISE | 126 |
CHAPTER XXXI MR BROUNE HAS MADE UP HIS MIND | 130 |
CHAPTER XXXII LADY MONOGRAM | 134 |
CHAPTER XXXIII JOHN CRUMB | 138 |
CHAPTER XXXIV RUBY RUGGLES OBEYS HER GRANDFATHER | 144 |
CHAPTER XXXV MELMOTTES GLORY | 146 |
CHAPTER XXXVI MR BROUNES PERILS | 150 |
CHAPTER XXXVII THE BOARDROOM | 153 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII PAUL MONTAGUES TROUBLES | 158 |
CHAPTER XXXIX I DO LOVE HIM | 162 |
CHAPTER XL UNANIMITY IS THE VERY SOUL OF THESE THINGS | 168 |
CHAPTER XLI ALL PREPARED | 170 |
CHAPTER XLII CAN YOU BE READY IN TEN MINUTES? | 173 |
CHAPTER XLIII THE CITY ROAD | 177 |
CHAPTER XLIV THE COMING ELECTION | 183 |
CHAPTER XLV MR MELMOTTE IS PRESSED FOR TIME | 187 |
CHAPTER XLVI ROGER CARBURY AND HIS TWO FRIENDS | 190 |
CHAPTER XLVII MRS HURTLE AT LOWESTOFFE | 195 |
CHAPTER XLVIII RUBY A PRISONER | 200 |
CHAPTER XLIX SIR FELIX MAKES HIMSELF READY | 202 |
CHAPTER L THE JOURNEY TO LIVERPOOL | 205 |
CHAPTER LI WHICH SHALL IT BE? | 210 |
CHAPTER LX MISS LONGESTAFFES LOVER | 247 |
CHAPTER LXI LADY MONOGRAM PREPARES FOR THE PARTY | 250 |
CHAPTER LXII THE PARTY | 253 |
CHAPTER LXIII MR MELMOTTE ON THE DAY OF THE ELECTION | 259 |
CHAPTER LXIV THE ELECTION | 263 |
CHAPTER LXV MISS LONGESTAFFE WRITES HOME | 267 |
CHAPTER LXVI SO SHALL BE MY ENMITY | 270 |
CHAPTER LXVII SIR FELIX PROTECTS HIS SISTER | 274 |
CHAPTER LXVIII MISS MELMOTTE DECLARES HER PURPOSE | 277 |
CHAPTER LXIX MELMOTTE IN PARLIAMENT | 280 |
CHAPTER LXX SIR FELIX MEDDLES WITH MANY MATTERS | 286 |
CHAPTER LXXI JOHN CRUMB FALLS INTO TROUBLE | 290 |
CHAPTER LXXII ASK HIMSELF | 294 |
CHAPTER LXXIII MARIES FORTUNE | 298 |
CHAPTER LXXIV MELMOTTE MAKES A FRIEND | 301 |
CHAPTER LXXV IN BRUTON STREET | 305 |
CHAPTER LXXVI HETTA AND HER LOVER | 310 |
CHAPTER LXXVII ANOTHER SCENE IN BRUTON STREET | 314 |
CHAPTER LXXVIII MISS LONGESTAFFE AGAIN AT CAVERSHAM | 319 |
CHAPTER LXXIX THE BREHGERT CORRESPONDENCE | 322 |
CHAPTER LXXX RUBY PREPARES FOR SERVICE | 327 |
CHAPTER LXXXI MR COHENLUPE LEAVES LONDON | 330 |
CHAPTER LXXXII MARIES PERSEVERANCE | 334 |
CHAPTER LXXXIII MELMOTTE AGAIN AT THE HOUSE | 339 |
CHAPTER LXXXIV PAUL MONTAGUES VINDICATION | 343 |
CHAPTER LXXXV BREAKFAST IN BERKELEY SQUARE | 346 |
CHAPTER LXXXVI THE MEETING IN BRUTON STREET | 350 |
CHAPTER LXXXVII DOWN AT CARBURY | 354 |
CHAPTER LXXXVIII THE INQUEST | 358 |
CHAPTER LXXXIX THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE | 361 |
CHAPTER XC HETTAS SORROW | 367 |
CHAPTER XCI THE RIVALS | 370 |
CHAPTER XCII HAMILTON K FISKER AGAIN | 374 |
CHAPTER XCIII A TRUE LOVER | 378 |
CHAPTER XCIV JOHN CRUMBS VICTORY | 382 |
CHAPTER XCV THE LONGESTAFFE MARRIAGES | 386 |
CHAPTER XCVI WHERE THE WILD ASSES QUENCH THEIR THIRST | 390 |
CHAPTER XCVII MRS HURTLES FATE | 393 |
CHAPTER XCVIII MARIE MELMOTTES FATE | 398 |
CHAPTER XCIX LADY CARBURY AND MR BROUNE | 402 |
CHAPTER C DOWN IN SUFFOLK | 405 |