The Way We Live Now - 9780140433920

Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims.

• | By (Author): Anthony Trollope
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• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 28, 1994
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 816 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0140433929
• | ISBN-13: 9780140433920