Hard Cover
1874 · Hartford
by Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]; Warner, Charles Dudley
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Hoppin; Stephens; Williams; White; et al. Early printing of BAL 3357. Only one imprint on title page. Includes fold-out with several Japanese tissue repairs on reverse. Rebacked with original backstrip laid down, boards rubbed. 1874 Hard Cover. xvi, [17]-574, [2] pp. 8vo. 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 peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels. (Inventory #: 2288751)