The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today .
- ISBN-10
- 1795623780
- ISBN-13
- 9781795623780
- Series
- The Gilded Age
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 438
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-02
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Authors
- Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Description
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. 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. The novel gave the era its name: the period of US history from the 1870s to about 1900 is now referred to as the Gilded Age.
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