The Gilded Age

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

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Genres: Fiction

76 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Reviews

[John Kissell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've picked up "The Gilded Age" several times over the years, but because we're living through our own Gilded Age this time I finished it. It is a tale of political corruption with tragic results that satirized several contemporary events. That the title became the name of the period is telling. There are marvelous passages and tedious ones; compelling storylines and off-handed ones. I tried to discern which were written by Charles Dudley Warner and which by Mark Twain, and I think I can tell the respective authors' work. Much of the corruption, fortune-making and self-delusion has echoes in our own time.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

I quite enjoyed the story, but I would recommend a better copy that the Scholar Select line. The poor reproduction near the end was virtually unreadable.