This is how we live now
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This is how we live now
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For the first time in Russian (not counting archaic and abridged 19th-century translations), this is one of the major novels of the British classic, whose modern popularity in the English-speaking world can be compared only to that of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. "Trollope kills me with his skill," Leo Tolstoy wrote in his diary.
Augustus Melmotte, Esq., arrives in London from Paris. He is rumored to be the owner of a vast fortune, capable of "buying and selling shares to make or break any company," and even to raise or lower the national currency's value at his own discretion. The financier's past is shrouded in mystery, but it is said that "he supposedly built a railway across Russia, supplied the Southern army during the Civil War, supplied arms to Austria, and once bought up all the iron in England." He acquires a mansion on Grosvenor Square and attempts to buy the Pickering Park estate in Sussex. He becomes chairman of a major company promising investors fabulous profits, and runs for Parliament. A host of idle aristocrats, greedy nouveau riche, and cunning widows swarm around him, and the empire's most eligible bachelors seek his daughter's hand—but how solid is the foundation of his success?
Augustus Melmotte, Esq., arrives in London from Paris. He is rumored to be the owner of a vast fortune, capable of "buying and selling shares to make or break any company," and even to raise or lower the national currency's value at his own discretion. The financier's past is shrouded in mystery, but it is said that "he supposedly built a railway across Russia, supplied the Southern army during the Civil War, supplied arms to Austria, and once bought up all the iron in England." He acquires a mansion on Grosvenor Square and attempts to buy the Pickering Park estate in Sussex. He becomes chairman of a major company promising investors fabulous profits, and runs for Parliament. A host of idle aristocrats, greedy nouveau riche, and cunning widows swarm around him, and the empire's most eligible bachelors seek his daughter's hand—but how solid is the foundation of his success?
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