Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility – using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society, his web of deceit – which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie and Felix’s mother, the pulp novelist Lady Carbury – begins to unravel. A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy.
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भाषा अंग्रेज़ी ● स्वरूप EPUB ● ISBN 9780141905617 ● संपादक Frank Kermode ● प्रकाशक Penguin Books Ltd ● प्रकाशित 1994 ● डाउनलोड करने योग्य 6 बार ● मुद्रा EUR ● आईडी 2268382 ● कॉपी सुरक्षा Adobe DRM
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