The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Summary
Augustus Melmotte is a foreign-born financier with a mysterious past (he is rumored to have Jewish origins, and it is later revealed that he owned a bankrupted bank in Munich). When he moves his business and his family to London, the city's upper crust begins buzzing with rumours about him - and a host of characters ultimately find their lives changed because of him.