The gilded age : a tale of to-day

This book was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner, a prominent writer and a good friend of Twain’s. The novel is criticized for the choppiness of its structure, the fact of which is not surprising considering the very different styles of writing possessed by the two authors. In the book, Warner and Twain coin the term ‘gilded age’ as a condemnation of the excessive greed and exploitation that characterized industrialization in the post-Civil War United States. This was the era of robber barons. Through their novel, Warner and Twain sought to highlight the injustice inherent in the business practices of these robber barons.

A version of this text has been digitized and is available through the Internet Archive.

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/328276