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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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9780141905617 ● 编辑 Frank Kermode ● 出版者 Penguin Books Ltd ● 发布时间 1994 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2268382 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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