# The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.

"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satirical novel published in 1873. It follows a poor rural family's attempts to strike it rich by selling their vast Tennessee land, while their adopted daughter Laura becomes a Washington lobbyist seeking congressional support. Meanwhile, two young men pursue fortune through land speculation. The novel skewers the greed, materialism, and political corruption of post-Civil War America—so effectively that it named an entire era of American history. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Satire; Political fiction; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction; Legislators -- Fiction; Speculation -- Fiction; Political corruption -- Fiction; Businessmen -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/4971) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (16 h 9 min, English)
- [Gilded Age, A Tale of Today](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/4097) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (17 h 8 min, English)

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