Dec 23, 2009

The Gilded Age | The Gilded Age

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Author: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
First Published: 1873
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Satire
Time of Work: Late 1840’s to early 1870’s
Genres: Long fiction, Satire
Subjects: United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Politicians, Moral conditions, Corruption, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, Real estate, Land settlement, Coal or coal mining
Locales: Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Missouri

Places Discussed

Obedstown. Tiny village in eastern Tennessee whose few homes are so widely dispersed among trees that it is difficult for visitors to realize that they are in a “town.” The novel opens with the village postmaster, Si Hawkins, receiving a letter from his friend Colonel Sellers urging him to bring his family to Missouri because that state offers easier riches. Hawkins’s giving up on Obedstown is the first of the novel’s many relocations in search of easier wealth.

Twain modeled Obedstown on Jamestown, Tennessee, where his own parents lived before...

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The Gilded Age | The Gilded Age

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