The Way We Live NowWordsworth Editions, 1995 - 776 страници With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte. Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest and strangest creations, and is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time. Trollope's 'Now' might, in the twenty-first century, look like some distant disenchanted 'Then', but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today. |
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VOLUME ONE I Three Editors | 3 |
The Carbury Family II | 11 |
The Beargarden | 19 |
Madame Melmottes Ball | 25 |
After the Ball | 37 |
Roger Carbury and Paul Montague | 40 |
Mentor | 49 |
LoveSick | 57 |
Dolly Longestaffe Goes into the City | 214 |
Miss Melmottes Courage | 219 |
Mr Melmottes Promise | 225 |
Mr Broune Has Made Up His Mind | 233 |
Lady Monogram | 240 |
John Crumb | 248 |
Ruby Ruggles Obeys Her Grandfather | 258 |
Melmottes Glory | 263 |
The Great Railway to Vera Cruz | 63 |
Mr Fiskers Success | 70 |
Lady Carbury at Home | 79 |
Sir Felix in his Mothers House | 89 |
The Longestaffes | 94 |
Carbury Manor | 103 |
You Should Remember that I am His Mother | 110 |
The Bishop and the Priest | 118 |
Marie Melmotte Hears a Love Tale | 128 |
Ruby Ruggles Hears a Love Tale | 138 |
Hetta Carbury Hears a Love Tale | 142 |
Lady Pomonas Dinner Party | 152 |
Everybody Goes to Them | 157 |
Lord Nidderdales Morality | 167 |
Yes Im a Baronet | 173 |
Miles Grendalls Triumph | 182 |
In Grosvenor Square | 189 |
Mrs Hurtle | 195 |
Mrs Hurtle Goes to the Play | 205 |
Mr Brounes Perils | 271 |
The Boardroom | 276 |
Paul Montagues Troubles | 287 |
I Do Love Him | 294 |
Unanimity is the Very Soul of These Things | 304 |
All Prepared | 309 |
Can You be Ready in Ten Minutes? | 314 |
The City Road | 323 |
The Coming Election | 333 |
Mr Melmotte is Pressed for Time | 340 |
Roger Carbury and His Two Friends | 347 |
Mrs Hurtle at Lowestoft | 355 |
Ruby a Prisoner | 365 |
Sir Felix Makes Himself Ready | 370 |
The Journey to Liverpool | 377 |
VOLUME TWO LI Which Shall It Be? | 385 |
The Results of Love and Wine | 393 |
A Day in the City | 399 |
The India Office | 409 |