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ARTS ETC: I LOVE THE 1870S Anthony Trollope would find nothing new in the empty celebrity of Victoria Hervey or the collapse of Railtrack, says Matthew Sweet. The great Victorian novelist anticipated all these things and more in The Way We Live Now, a sat

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20011104
Author:Matthew Sweet

A prominent businessman becomes a Tory MP, and is then exposed as gigantic fraudster; a talentless celebrity author offers sexual favours to newspaper hacks in order to secure sweet reviews; a swathe of investors is cleaned out when a private railway company collapses; a rich It Girl is hunted by posh boys with mockney accents; metropolitan wannabes scramble for invitations to a bash in honour of foreign royalty; metropolitan life is exposed as a piranha-tank of shysters, schmoozers and swindlers. Anthony Trollope's novel The Way We Live Now (1875) may be the best satire on 21st-century ...

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