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630. 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. Twain and Warner originally had planned ...
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Aug 19, 2006 · THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 Part 1. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove ...
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. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his ...
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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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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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Jun 21, 2004 · The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today Credits: Produced by David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Satire Subject: Political fiction Subject: Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction Subject: Legislators -- Fiction Subject: Speculation -- Fiction Subject: Political corruption -- Fiction ...
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner. Courier Dover Publications, Mar 18, 2020 - Fiction - 400 pages. It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were challenged to come up with ...
