"The Gilded Age: A Tale Of To-Day" 1880 TWAIN, Mark
$750
TWAIN, Mark
[574] pp.
American Publishing Company
1880
9" x 6"
w/ 8-fold map of The Salt Lick Branch of The Pacific R.R. on page 246-247
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. 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 novel gave the era its nickname: the period of U.S. history from the 1870s to about 1900 is now referred to as the Gilded Age.