Not! "The Way We Live Now"

Renate · Today, 12:31 PM

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?

Quoth · Today, 04:04 PM

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

Quoth · Today, 04:06 PM

Also maybe today is much like 1860s to 1890s in some respects?

Today, 12:31 PM	#1
Renate Wizard Posts: 2,648 Karma: 11749029 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Nook NST, Glow2, 3, 4, '21, Kobo Aura2, Poke3, Poke5	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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Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,794 Karma: 87663463 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	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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Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,794 Karma: 87663463 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	Also maybe today is much like 1860s to 1890s in some respects?

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