The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
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Beschreibung des Verlags
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner satirizing greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. 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." Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
GENRE
Belletristik und Literatur
ERSCHIENEN
2010
1. Januar
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
681
Seiten
VERLAG
MobileReference
GRÖSSE
534,6
kB
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