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3 giorni fa · The Way We Live Now is 7067 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The TV show has moved up the charts by 5762 places since yesterday. In the United Kingdom, it is currently more popular than Fixer to Fabulous but less popular than Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas.
The Way We Live Now. Season 1. Dave Suchet and Cillian Murphy star in Anthony Trollope's epic Victorian tale exhibiting the trials and tribulations of love, honor, and greed. Set in the railway boom of the 1870s, the old order faces turmoil as it is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance. 2001 4 episodes.
Huge sums of money are at stake, as well as romantic happiness. The Way We Live Now is usually thought Trollope's major work of satire but is better described as his most substantial exploration of a form of crime fiction, where the crimes are both literal and moral. It is a text preoccupied by detection and the unmasking of swindlers.
Melmotte and his massive swindling schemes increasingly come to dominate the action of this fascinating, teeming novel. Some find his original in George Hudson, the railway king, whose world collapsed in ruins in 1849. Some find him in Albert Gottheimer, a central European who was perhaps the first to discover how a gullible public could be ...
3 giorni fa · The Way We Live Now. David Suchet stars in Anthony Trollope’s epic tale of Victorian power and corruption, set in the 1870s.
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. It was regarded by many of Trollope's contemporaries as his finest work. One of his longest novels (it contains a hundred chapters), The Way We Live Now is particularly rich in sub-plot.
His picture of late-nineteenth-century England is a portrait of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. In The Way We Live Now Trollope combines his talents as a portraitist and his skills as a storyteller to give us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago. Read more. Report an issue with this product.
- Anthony Trollope
