The Way We Live Now, Paperback

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.

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Author(s): Anthony Trollope
• Number of pages: 816
• Publication date: 1994
• Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 37
• Cover type: Paperback / softback
• Editor(s): Frank Kermode