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“This is the one I’ve read the most…The Way We Live Now is about a swindler or confidence trickster, Augustus Melmotte, who bears a strong resemblance to Robert Maxwell, if you remember him. It’s about an outsider who tries to make his way in British society and it’s all a house of cards. He’s trying to ramp up shares, he doesn’t have to put any money in and other people will take the hit, it’s about class and money and corruption.” Read more...
“Other writers have tried to capture the world of high finance, and failed, because finance is abstract and complicated. Trollope succeeded because his real interest was in bringing to life the way that money could change human character. There’s nothing abstract or complicated about greed, vanity and weakness.” Read more...
The best books on Financial Speculation
John Gapper, Journalist
