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A review by jesscat
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
3.0
Frustrating. Enjoyable as it is to see Melmotte the proto-Trump experience his downfall, it's not enough to sustain a 900+ page novel. I found most of the romances unengaging & the politics not as sharply drawn as in the Barchester books.
I can see Trollope is a more mature & balanced author in this later work but tbh I missed the eccentric obsessions with ecclesiastical minutiae & clerical manoeuvrings found in, say, Barchester Towers.
I can see Trollope is a more mature & balanced author in this later work but tbh I missed the eccentric obsessions with ecclesiastical minutiae & clerical manoeuvrings found in, say, Barchester Towers.