That's how we live now. Trollop E.

For the first time in Russian (not counting archaic and abbreviated translations of the 19th century), one of the main novels of the British classic, the modern popularity of which in the English -language world can be compared only with the glory of Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. “Trollop kills me with his skill,” Lev Tolstoy wrote in his diary.

Ogastes Melmott, Esquire, the owner of a huge, by rumors, capable of “buying and selling shares, will come to London from Paris, to raise or destroy any company”, or even at his discretion, raise or drop the quotation of the national currency ; The past of the financier is shrouded in secret, but they say that "allegedly he built a railway across Russia, supplied the army of southerners during the war of the north and south, supplied Austria’s weapons and once bought all the iron in England." He acquires a mansion for Grovenor Square and is trying to buy the Pikering Park estate in Sussex, becomes the chairman of the board of directors of a large company that promises fairy tale profits, and is running for parliament. Around him the hosts of idle aristocrats, greedy nouveau riche and cunning widows are curled up, his daughter’s hands are achieved by the most enviable grooms of the empire - but how firmly the foundation of his success?..