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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.
Sep 1, 2001 · 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.
Aug 4, 2014 · The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Paperback – August 4, 2014. The Gilded Age in United States history is a period approximately spanning the final three decades of the nineteenth century; from the end of the Reconstruction Era in the 1870s to 1900.
Nov 20, 2019 · 'The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today' by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satire on greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America, which gave the era its name. It tells the story of a rural family's attempts to sell their acquired land and the adventures of their adopted daughter Laura, who becomes a lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
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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...
Aug 19, 2006 · She had just reached the romantic age—the age when there is a sad sweetness, a dismal comfort to a girl to find out that there is a mystery connected with her birth, which no other piece of good luck can afford.
Mar 18, 2020 · After the Civil War, Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) left his small town to seek work as a riverboat pilot. As Mark Twain, the Missouri native found his place in the world. Author, journalist, lecturer,...
The only book that Mark Twain ever wrote in collaboration with another author, The Gilded Age is a novel that viciously and hilariously satirizes the greed, materialism, and corruption...
Mar 18, 2023 · Co-written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, this rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust.
