1875
3 livros · década de 1870 · século XIX
- The Prime Minister EnglishYou watch the conscientious Plantagenet Palliser enter Downing Street while Glencora, his politically shrewd wife, tries to make power livable; Trollope makes cabinet meetings and dinner parties equally revealing. It moves patiently, but the moral pressure around Ferdinand Lopez gives the novel real bite.
- The Survivors of the Chancellor EnglishFair warning, this is Verne at his bleakest: a burning cotton ship, then a raft, then hunger doing terrible things to decent people. But Kazallon's diary entries get shorter and rawer as hope shrinks, and if you can stomach the drawing of lots, it stays with you.
- The Way We Live Now EnglishYou get a sprawling social comedy where Augustus Melmotte bulldozes through London society while Lady Carbury turns ambition into novels. It asks patience with its courtships and financial schemes, but the pleasure lies in watching vanity, decency, and self-deception collide.