The Way We Live Now

ISBN: 9780198705031 出版年：2016 页码：849 Trollope, Anthony Oxford University Press

Melmotte is an outsider of obscure origins and riches. A ruthless financier, he charms the rich and powerful elite into investing in dubious schemes. He conspires his way to political influence, his rise swift due to the corrupt society he invades. The Way We Live Now is a lurid tale-of-the-times with one of fiction's most memorable villains