The Gilded Age, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
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The Gilded Age

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 16 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2011


Synopsis

The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War. This period is often referred to as the Gilded Age because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the time is exemplified through two fictional narratives: one, of the Hawkins, a poor family from Tennessee that tries to persuade the government to purchase their seventyfive thousand acres of unimproved land; and second, of Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly, two young upperclass men who seek their fortune in land as well. This book is widely considered one of the hundred greatest books of all time and is here to attract a whole new generation of readers, for the themes of this classic work are still relevant to our nation today.

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