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The Gilded Age (1873)

The Gilded Age (1873)( )
Author: Twain, Mark
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
Introduction by: Just, Ward
As told to: Camfield, Gregg
Series title:The Oxford Mark Twain Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-510134-8
Publication Date:Mar 1997
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $35.00
Book Description:

The first novel of consequence about Washington in all of American writing, The Gilded Age is Twain's political roman a clef--a direct and caustic attack on Washington, Wall Street, and Westward expansion.

Book Details
Pages:720
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.84 x 22.225 x 4.902 cm
Book Weight:1.155 Kilograms
Author Biography
Twain, Mark (Author)
Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

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