The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2020-03-18

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0486846482

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Rollicking 1873 tale portrays post-Civil War corruption of Washington, D.C. The Gilded Age became synonymous with the era's excesses, and its subtitle — "A Tale of Today" — remains relevant.

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.