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  1. Sep 1, 2001 · 4.2 191 ratings. See all formats and editions. First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism.

  2. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication.

    • Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
    • 1873
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  4. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) is a novel Mark Twain co-wrote with Charles Dudley Warner. The title came to define the period in American history occurring "from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era."

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  5. Jun 21, 2004 · Jun 21, 2004. Most Recently Updated. Jan 27, 2021. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 1047 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

  6. Mar 18, 2020 · Praised by historian Gary Wills as "our best political novel," The Gilded Age was among the first major American books to satirize the graft, materialism, and breakdown of public life....