by Anthony Trollope
Recommended by Tim O’Reilly and Jessica Parker
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Trollope stages a large social novel around a financier's fraudulent railway schemes and the romantic entanglements that follow, mixing courtroom-style scandal scenes with drawn-out social observation. The pleasure comes from watching reputations wobble and characters scheme, gossip, and judge one another—plenty of plot turns and moral squabbles to discuss. The main limitation is tempo: chapters pause for extended asides about finance, rank, and propriety, testing readers who prefer compressed modern prose and fast payoff.
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Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's illuse at the hands of a grasping lover is a classic in the literature of money and a ripping good read as well....
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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