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Like Déjà Vu All Over Again – Book Review of Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now

Like Déjà Vu All Over Again – Book Review of Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now

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Anthony Trollope, who, like Charles Dickens was born in England in the mid-1810s, wrote 47 novels, several plays and a famous Autobiography … yet he is virtually unknown in America.  Many of his novels, such as The Warden, the first in a series of novels called the Barchester Chronicles, were extremely popular in Victorian England. In fact, many considered Trollope a superior novelist to Dickens. In America, however, everyone knows Charles Dickens – if only from A Christmas Carol, featuring Scr

Anthony Trollope, who, like Charles Dickens was born in England in the mid-1810s, wrote 47 novels, several plays and a famous Autobiography … yet he is virtually unknown in America.  Many of his novels, such as The Warden, the first in a series of novels called the Barchester Chronicles, were extremely popular in Victorian England. In fact, many considered Trollope a superior novelist to Dickens. In America, however, everyone knows Charles Dickens – if only from A Christmas Carol, featuring Scr…