The Gilded Age - Paperback

by Mark Twain (Author)

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 Shakespeare's King John - has become synonymous with the excess of the era.

Author Biography

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.