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.

The Gilded Age a Tale of Today Mark Twain
The Gilded Age a Tale of Today Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-03-03

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781986155373

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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. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. The book is remarkable for two reasons--it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life.