The Way We Live Now
British novelist, 1815–1882.
The Way We Live Now is an 1874 novel by Anthony Trollope.
On 3 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anthony Trollope
- First published
- Serialised 1874–75
- Length
- 816 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire, Class and society, Political
Is The Way We Live Now worth reading?
3 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture) and The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 64 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Way We Live Now
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (1994), 816 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 1994)
- Pages
- 816
- ISBN
- 9780140433920
How critics and readers rate The Way We Live Now
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 31% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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