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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 100 editions since its original publication.
On the Decay of the Art of Lying" is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882). [1] [2] In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful ...
In a 1907 essay, Mark Twain, who was a close friend of Clark's rival, Henry H. Rogers, an organizer of the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company, [9] portrayed Clark as the very embodiment of Gilded Age excess and corruption:
‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO offers a fresh perspective of women’s roles during the late 19th century. ... American writer Mark Twain coined the term in his 1873 novel of the same name, used to ...
The Gilded Age was named for the practice of gilding, or covering surfaces with a thin, decorative layer of gold. Mark Twain coined the name as a criticism of the inequality that existed during ...
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Library of the World's Best Literature. Signature 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 .
Sketches by Mark Twain "Cannibalism in the Cars" is a short story written in 1868 by American writer Mark Twain. It tells the darkly humorous tale of apparent acts of cannibalism from the point of view of a congressman on a snowbound train. It indirectly satirizes the political system of the United States.
The term Gilded Age was applied to the era by 1920s historians who took the term from one of Mark Twain's lesser-known novels, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). The book (co-written with Charles Dudley Warner ) satirized the promised " golden age " after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold ...