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Newsweek listed this novel as #1 of 50 titles that "open a window on the times we live in". Their comments: The title says it all. Trollope's satire of financial (and moral) crisis in Victorian England even has a Madoff-before-Madoff, a tragic swindler named Augustus Melmotte. (Newsweek, July 13, 2009) [No, I haven't read it ... yet.]