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Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction. Frank Kermode is among our greatest contemporary critics. He has written and edited many works, among them The Sense of Ending and Shakespeare’s Language.
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'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. 'I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,' Trollope said.
His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope knew well the difficulties of dealing with editors, publishers, reviewers, and the public; his portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements.
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.
【本文为特罗洛普《如今世道》的英文版导读】 1872年12月,特罗洛普在澳大利亚殖民地和新西兰度过了忙碌的十八个月后,途经旧金山、盐湖城和纽约回到了英格兰。旅途和繁忙并没有妨碍他进行写作,有关这些偏远地方的书“差不多也都完成了”。在流亡国外的几个月期...
評分小时候,最喜欢听别人讲故事。(第一句话就是谎言,因为小时候并没有人给我讲故事。父母忙于生计,所以自己多半时候都待在外婆的家里。老太太倒是十分宠我,却总摆不脱现实生活中的吃喝拉撒。) 第一篇印象深刻的故事还是上幼儿园的时候,老师讲给我的。(第二句话又在撒谎,明...
評分【本文为特罗洛普《如今世道》的英文版导读】 1872年12月,特罗洛普在澳大利亚殖民地和新西兰度过了忙碌的十八个月后,途经旧金山、盐湖城和纽约回到了英格兰。旅途和繁忙并没有妨碍他进行写作,有关这些偏远地方的书“差不多也都完成了”。在流亡国外的几个月期...
評分小时候,最喜欢听别人讲故事。(第一句话就是谎言,因为小时候并没有人给我讲故事。父母忙于生计,所以自己多半时候都待在外婆的家里。老太太倒是十分宠我,却总摆不脱现实生活中的吃喝拉撒。) 第一篇印象深刻的故事还是上幼儿园的时候,老师讲给我的。(第二句话又在撒谎,明...
評分【本文为特罗洛普《如今世道》的英文版导读】 1872年12月,特罗洛普在澳大利亚殖民地和新西兰度过了忙碌的十八个月后,途经旧金山、盐湖城和纽约回到了英格兰。旅途和繁忙并没有妨碍他进行写作,有关这些偏远地方的书“差不多也都完成了”。在流亡国外的几个月期...
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