The Gilded Age : : a Tale of Today
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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 collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
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SERIES
Penguin classics.
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: 475 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
014043920X
9780140439205
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
Budd, Louis J.
SUBJECTS
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Legislators -- Fiction.
Speculation -- Fiction.
Businessmen -- Fiction.
Political fiction.
Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
Political fiction.
Satire.