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.
Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
" This period of political corruption and ostentatious materialism became known as the Gilded Age, named after this book.
The editor has organized this project to examine critically the historical facts and interpretations available on the period in American history known as the Gilded Age, or approximately the years...
This is the story of the Gilded Age of America.