The Gilded Age, Part 1.
Publisher Description
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes 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.
GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2004
20 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
97
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
PROVIDER INFO
Public Domain
SIZE
1.5
MB