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Not! "The Way We Live Now"
I always thought that I had read "The Way We Live Now", Anthony Trollope. But when I took a glance through it and realized that it was ~750 pages it didn't ring a bell. I realized that I had been conflating it with some shortish, futuristic (but not science fiction) book. Something similar to "Paris in the Twentieth Century", Jules Verne. But there was some similarity to the title. Any guesses?
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Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) (Samuel Clemens)
Charles Dickens has some aspects in "Little Dorrit" (Book 1857), also Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) (1854). See also H. G. Wells, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells_bibliography. Jules Verne is maybe less likely? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne_bibliography |
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Also maybe today is much like 1860s to 1890s in some respects?
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Thanks.
I did read "The Gilded Age" and you had me going for a while. Maybe the sap is running out of my brain. I seem to remember it as something "off-the-cuff" from some known writer. Maybe it was "Paris in the Twentieth Century". Grrr... |
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Could it have been Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy?
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Thanks, but I don't think so.
I started reading the Trollope. Initially it drew a blank with Lady Carbury, but as I progressed I remembered the whole thing. I don't know which book that I was thinking of. |
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