Trollope's

But despite my greater ease with chomping than with financial woes, I think the change that stuck out for me most was that Trollope's concern with the lives and livings of poorer clergymen was explicitly class-based: that these were not a class of people who should be expected to live in such dire circumstances.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009

And farther south again, I'm also reading Trollope's Framley Parsonage, where there is a villainous Sowerby who I hope will come to a sticky end.

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And some will object to its Londoncentricity – perhaps more controversial now than in Trollope's time.

The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012

Picking up on Trollope's withering critique of financial shenanigans, Cartwright, Faulks and Lanchester all write convincingly about the obscure but compelling world of high finance.

The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012

Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now remains the supreme example of the state of the nation novel, a sprawling tour de force with a huge cast of characters and a labyrinthine plot.

The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012

I'm having a very similar reaction to Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

Sir Harry calls to mind Trollope's Roger ­Carbury, the ­gentleman squire who is appalled by ­unscrupulous foreign speculators.

Modern Money Sam Sacks 2011

The acute wit of Anthony Trollope's character sketches make me think of Billy Wilder's decree: "If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi 2011

In this, "Other People's Money" is a miniature modernization of ­Anthony Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" and shares many of the classic's nostalgic charms.

Modern Money Sam Sacks 2011

While one can find traces of Trollope's ensemble approach to the capital in earlier books – Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Iain Sinclair's Downriver spring to mind – it has taken the boom-and-bust noughties to restore this particular novel to the forefront of our cultural consciousness.

The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012