The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satirical novel published in 1873. It follows a poor rural family's attempts to strike it rich by selling their vast Tennessee land, while their adopted daughter Laura becomes a Washington lobbyist seeking congressional support. Meanwhile, two young men pursue fortune through land speculation. The novel skewers the greed, materialism, and political corruption of post-Civil War America—so effectively that it named an entire era of American history. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Author Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
Title The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today
Credits Produced by David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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
Subject Businessmen -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 3178
Release Date
Last Update Jan 27, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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