Book Description
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.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486846482
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.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Christian Science
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Christian Science
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Christian Science
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Christian Science
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Christian Science
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 1899
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Christian Science
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Ezreads Publications Llc
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781615341238
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.