The Gilded Age, Part 6. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
"The Gilded Age, Part 6." by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satirical novel first published in 1873. This collaborative work follows a poor rural family's attempts to gain wealth by selling their vast Tennessee landholdings. Their adopted daughter Laura becomes a Washington lobbyist, navigating a world of political corruption and social ambition. Meanwhile, two young men seek fortune through land speculation. The novel satirizes the greed, materialism, and political
corruption of post-Civil War America—giving an entire era its enduring name. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
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| Author | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 |
| Title | The Gilded Age, Part 6. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today |
| Credits | Produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | Political fiction |
| Subject | Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Legislators -- Fiction |
| Subject | Speculation -- Fiction |
| Subject | Political corruption -- Fiction |
| Subject | Businessmen -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 5823 |
| Release Date | Jun 20, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 29, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 495 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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