"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is a novel which satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The theme of the novel is that the lust for getting rich through land speculation pervades society. The book is remarkable for two reasons – it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life. The novel gave the era its name: the period of U.S. history from the 1870s to about 1900 is now referred to as the Gilded Age.
"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is a novel which satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The theme of the novel is that the lust for getting rich through land speculation pervades society. The book is remarkable for two reasons – it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life. The novel gave the era its name: the period of U.S. history from the 1870s to about 1900 is now referred to as the Gilded Age.
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Casi todo el mundo sabe hoy quien es Mark Twain, pero pocos saben que su verdadero nombre era Samuel Langhorne Clemens y que nació prematuramente en Florida, en el Estado de Missouri, en 1835. A los veinte años, tras haber sido tipógrafo en un pueblo del Mississipi, vagabundeaba ya por el Estado de Nevada en busca de plata, que jamás encontró, y a los 35, era hombre casado y célebre. Inquieto, aventurero y vital en su juventud, en la madurez, no contento con el éxito como escritor, cayó presa del afán de dinero, que le llevó a arruinarse en más de una ocasión y a alejarse de su mujer y de sus hijas. Su vida fue la de un hombre contradictorio, eternamente insatisfecho. Treinta y siete volúmenes ocupa su obra completa, lo cual nos indica lo poco que sabemos del creador de los inefables Tom Sawyer y Huckleberry Finn, compañeros inseparables de nuestra infancia.
