Introduction by Ron Powers Includes Newly Commissioned Endnotes Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkab
The Gilded Age
β Scribed by Mark Twain
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library
- Year
- 2007;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Edition
- Modern Library pbk. ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A poor Tennessee family to get rich by finding the right time to sell the 75,000 acres of unimproved land acquired by their patriarch, Silas "Si" Hawkins. Meanwhile in a parallel story two young upper-class men, Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly, seek their fortunes in land a different way.
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