Warner, Charles Dudley Average customer rating: - Witty assessment of post-Civil War industry and politics. A classic. "For men are subject to their own impulses as soon as they have parted company with reason" Let's Do A Deal Greed A Tale of Today
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin Classics)
Mark Twain , and Charles Dudley Warner
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Release Date: Book Description First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels. Download Description The elders of the party were not long in discovering the fact, which almost all travelers to the west soon find out; that the water was poor. It must have been by a lucky premonition of this that they all had brandy flasks with which to qualify the water of the country; and it was no doubt from an uneasy feeling of the danger of being poisoned that they kept experimenting, mixing a little of the dangerous and changing fluid, as they passed along. | |
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