The Gilded Age, Part 7

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (30 November 1835 – 21 April 1910), better known as Mark Twain, was an American writer and humorist. Twain used different pen names before deciding on "Mark Twain". He signed humorous and imaginative sketches as "Josh" until 1863. Additionally, he used the pen name "Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass" for a series of humorous letters. He's the most famous works “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885), which are loving by all children in the world! He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".

“The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” is a novel written and published by Mark Twain and his friend Charles Dudley Warner (1829 – 1900) in 1873. The novel concerns the efforts of a poor rural Tennessee family to grow affluent by selling the 75,000 acres (300 km2) of unimproved land acquired by their patriarch, Silas “Si” Hawkins, in a timely manner. Let's read and step into the atmosphere of post-Civil War America, and enjoy the amazing Twain's style and humor!