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It's time to reclaim our classics from the sex maniacs `I've read "The Way We Live Now" and don't recall Sir Felix giving anyone a good seeing to'

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20001107
Author:D J Taylor

OPENING A Sunday newspaper to find a portrait of the bearded and bristling figure of Anthony Trollope and a headline containing the word "row", I had a shrewd idea of what the fuss might be about. I was bang right. The BBC is embarking on a lavish dramatisation of Trollope's 1875 masterpiece The Way We Live Now, booked to appear in summer 2001, and the row - a fairly contrived one, judging by the opinions set forth - concerns the degree of sexual frankness on offer.

Andrew Davies, the book's adaptor, is of course no stranger to this kind of spat. In fact, the whole Sunday Telegraph article ...

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