# The Gilded Age

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- Book: [The Gilded Age](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-twain/the-gilded-age) ([The Gilded Age.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-twain/the-gilded-age.md))
- Authors: [Mark Twain](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-twain), [Charles Dudley Warner](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dudley-warner), [Ron Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/ron-powers), [Louis J. Budd](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-j-budd)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-920-5
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2001-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...