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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.
ISBN-13

9780140433920

ISBN-10

0140433929

Weight

1.22 Pounds

Dimensions

5.08 x 1.46 x 7.78 In

List Price

$14.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

-

Pages

816 pages

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published On

1995-04-01


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