The Gilded Age, Vol. 1, (Hardcover)

from kerns222

Want to see politicians stealing? Businessmen hustling bad debt? Bankruptcies galore? Twain lived this in the Gilded Age (NOT the golden--only had the sham of glitter). Remind you of today?The poor had their eyes lit from above (from the tall mansions), trying to make it with one big deal. The ri...

from HadriantheBlind

A comic tale of land speculation and greed that is depressingly familiar. "A Novel of Today" indeed. Although this was written in the early ages of the 'Gilded Age' to which it would give its name, before the rise of the great industrial conglomerates and wars of conquest and imperialism, it does...

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A very curious novel. Although it is quite aged, it is still a worthwhile one that entails a mighty adventure through various states, situations, and circumstances. I was quite thrilled by certain passages and the train of events was constructed with ardent structure and precision. For those inte...