The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Mark Twain) (Literary Thoughts Edition)
- ISBN-10
- 3741821977
- ISBN-13
- 9783741821974
- Series
- The Gilded Age
- Category
- Fiction
- Language
- German
- Published
- 2016-06-12
- Publisher
- epubli
- Author
- Mark Twain
Description
Literary Thoughts edition presents The Gilded Age by Mark Twain ------ 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 in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age. 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. All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience. Please visit our homepage www.literarythoughts.com to see our other publications.
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