The Gilded Age - A Tale of Today
The Gilded Age - A Tale of Today

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1528791665

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Originally published in 1873, "The Gilded Age - A Tale of Today" is a collaboration between Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain. As gifted and popular writers of their time, this collaboration resulted in an insightful satire of the politics and society of the period following the Civil War. This is a fascinating novel and thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in American history. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884). Other notable works by this author include: “The Prince and the Pauper” (1881), and "Roughing It" (1872). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this fantastic novel now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.

The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13:

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Satirizes the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War.

The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age

Author: Charles Warner

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-03

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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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 in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age. "It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up." - Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded AgeIn post-Civil War America, everyone wants to get rich. Si Hawkins, a member of a poor Tennessee family wants to sell some land at the right price. However, the price is never right so Si Hawkins dies. His daughter, Laura leaves her home for Washington D.C. where she tries to learn the politician's wicked schemes. Please provide your review after purchase for our future enhancements.

The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Ezreads Publications Llc

Published: 2009-03

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 9781615341238

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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Illustrated.