在线阅读本书 'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: Brilliant but nave country doctor David Newcome courts tragedy when he invites a stranger into his home.In the English factory town of Calderbury, few figures are as respect

'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finan...(展开全部)

At first savagely reviewed, The Way We Live Now (1875) has since emerged as Trollope's masterpiece and the most admired of his works. When Trollope returned to England from the colonies in 1872 he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he sat down to write The Way We Live Now, his longest novel. Nothing escaped the satirist's whip: p...(展开全部)

◎ 作者介绍 诺姆 • 乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky，1928— ），著名语言学家、思想家，被誉为“现代语言学之父”。1928年出生于美国费城的犹太家庭，就学于宾夕法尼亚大学和哈佛大学，获得语言学博士学位后，长期任教于麻省理工学院。乔姆斯基的学术研究以语言学为起点，之后延伸到多个领域，如哲学、认知科学、计算机科学、心理学、社会学等。 乔姆斯基的著作有一百五十余种，受到广泛阅读，是20世纪中后期以来被引用次数最多的人文学者之一。代表性著作有《句法结构》（Syntactic Structures）、《语言学理论的逻辑结构》（The Logical Structure of Language Theory)、《论自然与语言》（On Nature and Language），以及《世界如何运转》《恐怖主义文化》《宣传与公共意识》《新自由主义与全球秩序》...(展开全部)