The Gilded Age: A Tale Of Today By: Mark Twain And By: Charles Dudley Warn...
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The Gilded Age: A Tale Of Today By: Mark Twain And By: Charles Dudley Warn.... Author: Warner, Charles Dudley (Author), Twain, Mark (Author). Publication Date: 2016-11-05. Number of Pages: 134. ISBN10: 1539944972. Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: The Gilded Age: A Tale Of Today By: Mark Twain And By: Charles Dudley Warner: (Volume Ii) Novel (World's Classic's) ISBN13: 9781539944973 ISBN10: 1539944972 Author: Warner, Charles Dudley (Author), Twain, Mark (Author) Description: (This is a RePrint) - 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 In The Era Now Referred To As The Gilded Age Although Not One Of Twain's Best-Known Works, It Has Appeared In More Than One Hundred Editions Since Its Original Publication Twain And Warner Originally Had Planned To Issue The Novel With Illustrations By Thomas Nast 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 The Term Gilded Age, Commonly Given To The Era, Comes From The Title Of This Book Twain And Warner Got The Name From Shakespeare's King John (1595): To Gild Refined Gold, To Paint The Lily Is Wasteful And Ridiculous Excess Citation Needed] Gilding Gold, Which Would Be To Put Gold On Top Of Gold, Is Excessive And Wasteful, Characteristics Of The Age Twain And Warner Wrote About In Their Novel Another Interpretation Of The Title, Of Course, Is The Contrast Between An Ideal Golden Age, And A Less Worthy Gilded Age, As Gilding Is Only A Thin Layer Of Gold Over Baser Metal, So The Title Now Takes On A Pejorative Meaning As To The Novel's Time, Events And People The Novel Concerns The Efforts Of A Poor Rural Tennessee Family To Become Affluent By Selling The 75,000 Acres (300 Km2) Of Unimproved Land Acquired By Their Patriarch, Silas Si Hawkins, In A Timely Manner After Several Adventures In Tennessee, The Family Fails To Sell The Land And Si Hawkins Dies The Rest Of The Hawkins Story Line Focuses On Their Beautiful Adopted Daughter, Laura In The Early 1870S, She Travels To Washington, D C To Become A Lobbyist With A Senator's Help, She Enters Society And Attempts To Persuade Congressmen To Require The Federal Government To Purchase The Land 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 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), Better Known By His Pen Name Mark Twain, Was An American Writer, Entrepreneur, Publisher And Lecturer Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Publication Date: 2016-11-05 Weight: 0.62 lbs Dimensions: 0.29'' H x 10'' L x 7.99'' W Number of Pages: 134 Language: English
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