The Gilded Age, Part 7. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
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"The Gilded Age, Part 7" by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satirical novel published in 1873. It exposes greed and corruption in post-Civil War America through intertwined stories of families chasing wealth through land speculation. A poor rural family attempts to sell their vast Tennessee acreage, while their adopted daughter Laura becomes a Washington lobbyist. Meanwhile, two young men pursue fortune through land surveying. The novel satirizes political corruption
and social pretensions, ultimately giving an entire era its name. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
|---|---|
| Author | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 |
| Title | The Gilded Age, Part 7. |
| 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: 69.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult 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. | 5824 |
| Release Date | Jun 20, 2004 |
| Last Update | Dec 29, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 439 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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