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: Social satire
Time of Work: Nineteenth century
Setting: The United States
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

Characters Discussed

Colonel Beriah Sellers, an improvident opportunist of Missouri and an operator on a grand scale.

Squire Hawkins, of Obedstown, Tennessee, persuaded by Sellers to move to Missouri, where his affairs fail to prosper.

Nancy Hawkins, his wife.

Emily, their daughter.

George Washington, their son.

Henry Clay, an orphan adopted by Hawkins during his journey.

Laura, the survivor of a steamboat accident, who is also adopted by Hawkins. She is fraudulently married by Colonel Selby, who already has a wife. When she sees him...

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The Gilded Age | The Gilded Age

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