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

Twain, Mark; Warner, Charles Dudley

ISBN 10: 014043920X / ISBN 13: 9780140439205

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2001

About this Item

Trade paperback published by Penguin. First published in 1873, satire of Post Civil War America. Introduction and notes by Louis Budd. 475 pages, 5" X 7-3/4". No writing, no former ownership marks. Crease mark on the left side of the front cover. Front cover also has some slight creases on the bottom edge. Slight crease mark on the back cover at the bottom edge about 2 inches long. No creases to the spine. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

Seller Inventory # 25-06256

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014043920X
• ISBN 13: 9780140439205
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics

About this title

Synopsis

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

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”