"This is the authorized uniform edition of all my books. Mark Twain"--Facsimile inscription on verso of half-title.
Contents:
Volume 10 ; Translations of chapter-head mottoes. Squire Hawkins adopts Clay -- Uncle Daniel's first sight of a steamboat -- Squire Hawkins on a Mississippi steamboat -- Laura Van Brunt adopted by the Hawkinses -- Ten years later -- Colonel Seller's schemes for money-making -- Colonel Sellers entertains Washington Hawkins -- Squire Hawkins dies, leaving lands to his children -- Laura's discovery -- A dinner party -- Harry and Philip go west to lay out a railroad -- Colonel Sellers welcomes the young men to St. Louis -- At Philadelphia -- Ruth studies medicine -- Model railroad engineer -- Stone's Landing becomes city of Napoleon--on paper -- Laura deceived by a mock marriage -- Brierly flirts with Laura, and is fascinated -- Dilworthy, the golden-tongued statesman -- Ruth at a seminary -- Philip at Fallkill, in love -- Philip and Harry go to work -- The city of Washington -- Work at Napoleon (Stone's Landing) -- Mr. Bolton makes another venture -- Colonel Sellers in difficulties -- How appropriation bills are carried -- Philip surveys the Ilium coal-lands -- Senator Dilworthy invites Laura to Washington -- Philip breaks his arm -- Translations of chapter-head mottoes. Volume 11 ; Translations of chapter-head mottoes. Laura receives calls from the aristocracies -- Laura in the lobby -- How majorities are secured -- The book-store clerk -- Laura coquets with Buckstone -- Laura sees Colonel Selby again -- Laura again in love with Selby -- How Washington news leaks out -- Harry hopelessly in love -- Mr. Trollop is trapped and becomes an ally -- Newspapers attack the university bill -- Philip shows his friendship for Brierly -- Why Mr. Buckstone supported the university bill -- Laura kills Colonel Selby -- Mr. Bigler helped out while Mr. Bolton runs in debt -- Philip just misses striking coal -- A bad fix -- Congressional preliminaries -- Moral influences to help the university bill -- Dilworthy at Saint's Rest, prepares for re-election -- Laura's trial -- The learned counsel -- Progress of the trial -- Waiting for telegrams -- The verdict -- The senate, jealous of its honor, rebukes corruption -- The fate of Laura -- Washington Hawkins takes a new start -- Luck will turn -- Ruth's recovery -- Appendix -- Translations of chapter-head mottoes.
Summary:
First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peace-time optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naiveté of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels. The book is remarkable for two reasons--it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life.
Series:
The writings of Mark Twain ; v. 10-11 Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Works. 1869-1909 ; v. 10-11.
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