The Gilded Age (Penguin Classics)

by Mark Twain (Author), Charles Dudley Warner (Author), LouisJ.Budd (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $13.14

  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 peace-time 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.