The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin Classics)

Warner, Charles Dudley, Twain, Mark

ISBN 10: 014043920X / ISBN 13: 9780140439205

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2001

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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 peace-time optimism.
With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naiveté of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, which forms the setting for his two greatest works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and then gold-mining, the former steam-boat pilot eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.

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Titel: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin ...
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 2. Auflage