7 edition of The gilded age found in the catalog.
The gilded age
Mark Twain
Published
1874
by American Publishing Co., F.G. Gilman & Co. in Hartford [Conn.], Chicago, Ill
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner ; fully illustrated from new designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White, etc., etc. |
| Contributions | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900. |
| The Physical Object | |
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| Pagination | xvi, 17-574 p., [21] leaves of plates (1 folded) : |
| Number of Pages | 574 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL23340658M |
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The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern. Mar 14, · Parents need to know that Gilded is Christina Farley's debut novel and the first book in the Gilded series. It's about a Korean-American teen who lives with her father in Seoul, South Korea. She battles an evil demigod, Haemosu, who wants to take her soul and make her his princess. The legend of Haemosu is an actual Korean myth.5/5.
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A rich romp” (Elle). A modern Edith Wharton heroine returns to the hothouse of Cleveland society/5(26). America in the Gilded Age.
The Gilded Age means America and America would not be the country it is today without The gilded age book successes, failures and excesses of the Gilded Age. That age covers American reconstruction, the American Industrial Revolution and the American Victorian Period.
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His book shows how these intellectuals brought America into the modern. Mar 13, · The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today was a famous satirical novel by Mark Twain set in the late s, and the term “Gilded Age” soon came to define.
Gilded Age, period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these, The Gilded Age (), written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles.
Jan 01, · Gilded Age book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A debut author transforms Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth into a pow /5. The term Gilded Age for the period of economic boom after the American Civil War up to the turn of the century was applied to the era by historians in the s, who took the term from one of Mark Twain's lesser known novels, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today ().
The book (co-written with Charles Dudley Warner) satirized the promised "golden age" after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of. White discusses a wide variety of aspects of Gilded Age America in The Republic for which It Stands, which is one of the reasons that it is the best book about the Gilded Age.
The main topics he focuses on are Gilded Age politics, race relations in the South, railroads and industrialization, capitalists and unions, and Native Americans.
While not as widely known, the west coast of the United States had many Gilded Age mansions too. Los Angeles, California may have had a later start, but once th e movie industry arrived, all the glamour and opulence one associates with places like Beverly Hills started to rise.
I highly recommend this book, "Houses of Los Angeles " published by Acanthus Press, New York.5/5. Gilded Age politicians were largely corrupt and ineffective. Most Americans during the Gilded Age wanted political and social reforms, but they disagreed strongly on what kind of reform.
Gilded or Gold. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner were the first to call the years after the Civil War the "gilded age." Struck by what they saw as the. This charming, thoughtful, and affecting book tells the story of the first black woman to attend Vassar. That she attended as a white woman, passing and always at risk of exposure, drives the plot and allows Tanabe to tell a rich, complicated story about race, gender, education, love, /5.
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Jan 19, · National Book Award nominee Milton Rugoff gives his uniquely revealing view of the Gilded Age in this collective biography of Americans from to Writing on the political spoilsmen, money kings, parvenus, forty-niners, lords of the press, sexual transgressors, and women's rights leaders, Rugoff focuses on thirty-six men and women from /5.
Aug 25, · By Skip Moskey. Edith Wharton, ca. Edith Wharton is known in American cultural history primarily as the author of Gilded Age novels that for.
Books shelved as american-history-gilded-age: Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy by Dan Abrams, Lost Kingdom: Ha. The only book that Mark Twain ever wrote in collaboration with another author, The Gilded Age is a novel that viciously and hilariously satirizes the greed, materialism, and corruption that characterized much of upper-class America in the nineteenth century.
The title term - inspired by a line in /5. I had always wanted to read this book, thinking it was a different sort of novel, perhaps from the point of the wealthy. Also, I had no idea that The Gilded Age was such a serious work. Oh, Mark Twain's humor comes across frequently, especially in the sections taking place in Washington/5.Page 83 - Iowa, three thousand in Arkansas, four thousand in Kentucky, six thousand in Illinois, and say twenty-five thousand in the rest of the country.
Total, fifty-five thousand bottles; profit clear of all expenses, twenty thousand dollars at the very lowest calculation. All the capital needed is to manufacture the first two thousand bottles — say a hundred and fifty dollars — then the 4/5(1).The Gilded Age, Complete By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
2 PREFACE. This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author's; it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle.
