The next meeting of Great Books KC will be August 28, 2026. We will discuss the book, The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope. Our discussion will cover all 100 chapters.
Meeting Date & Time:
• Date: August 28, 2026
• Time 7:00 pm
Hybrid Zoom & In-Person Meeting:
• In-person meeting, Little Conference Room, Plaza Branch Library
• Zoom link sent to mailing list on day of meeting
• Request mailing list addition, send to GreatBooksKC@gmail.com
About the Book:
The Way We Live Now is a satirical and political novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts. The novel is one of Trollope's longest, comprising 100 chapters, and is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s; Trollope had just returned to England from abroad, and was appalled by the greed and dishonesty those scandals exposed. This novel was his rebuke. It dramatized how such greed and dishonesty pervaded the commercial, political, moral, and intellectual life of that era.
Helpful Links:
- The two-part BBC mini-series, available on YouTube:(see this link to part 1 The Way We Live Now - Mini Series - Part 1 of 2 - (2001)
- Novelist Alex Preston's lecture to the Trollope Society
2 comments:
LINK to a summary report on the discussions that took place at the August 28, 2026 meeting.
People who attended the August 28, 2026 meeting:
Those who attended in person:
Bernard Norcott-mahany
Clif Hostetler
Craig Carter
Jane Temple
Rex Nowland
Those who attended via Zoom:
Donald E. Pepper
Ed Doering
Greg Brown
John Rasmus
Tom Brown
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