The Gilded Age
work by Twain and Warner
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discussed in biography of Twain
- In Mark Twain: Literary maturity of Mark Twain
The Gilded Age (1873) was remarkably well received, and a play based on the most amusing character from the novel, Colonel Sellers, also became quite popular.
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rise of Gilded Age criticism
- In Gilded Age
…from the earliest of these, The Gilded Age (1873), written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The novel gives a vivid and accurate description of Washington, D.C., and is peopled with caricatures of many leading figures of the day, including greedy industrialists and corrupt politicians.
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