The Way We Live Now, Paperback/Anthony Trollope

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