Way We Live Now, The

Anthony Trollope's 1875 novel, "e;The Way We Live Now"e;, is a biting satire of the wealthy and powerful in Victorian England.

Augustus Melmotte, a wealthy financier moves to London and begins to gather investors for an American railway venture.

When his daughter Marie takes up with the dissolute gold-digging aristocrat Felix Carbury, Melmotte steps in to block the union.

Multiple subplots involving schemes to move up in society and thwart others from doing the same constitute a panorama of greed and desperation that makes The Way We Live Now Trollope's masterpiece.