Creator
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
Title
The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day
Coverage
Hartford
Publisher
American Publishing Company
Date
1873
Description
When Twain and Warner lamented the quality of the books their wives were reading, the women challenged them to write something better. The resulting collaboration is the book whose name lent itself to the era: The Gilded Age, a satire on post–Civil War American corruption. This copy is in the publisher’s full sheep binding.
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