The mysterious financier Augustus Melmotte ascends to the heights of London society on a fortune of speculation and fraud, while the impoverished, scheming Carbury family and a corrupt literary world orbit his rise and fall.
Books mentioned in The Way We Live Now (2)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “Those scraps of paper, so easily destroyed, apparently so little respected, may hereafter be acknowledged to have had a value greater, so far greater, than their weight in gold! If "Robinson Crusoe" had been lost!”
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “If "Tom Jones" had been consumed by flames!”
Books that mention The Way We Live Now (1)
The Disappearers by Marlon James: “whoever couldn't be bothered to take home The Way We Live Now”