The Way We Live Now

Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims.

Augustus Melmotte este un finantator strain fraudulos care prada nobilimii dezordonate - folosind farmecul pentru a-i tenta pe cei slabi sa faca investitii prostesti in planurile sale dubioase. Convins sa puna bani intr-un complot notional pentru a conduce o cale ferata de la San Francisco la Santa Cruz, jucatorul capricios Felix Carbury devine curand una dintre victimele sale.