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The Gilded Age : A Tale Of Today (Mobi Classics) - Mark Twain

The Gilded Age

A Tale Of Today (Mobi Classics)

By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

eBook | 1 January 2010

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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner satirizing greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess." Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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