Users
0%
0 voices
Listen to books for free
Listen book
0
viewed
0
comments

About book

  • Namebook The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
  • Author Mark Twain
  • Time 17:08:19

Book annotation

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess." Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel. Another interpretation of the title, of course, is the contrast between an ideal "Golden Age," and a less worthy "Gilded Age," as gilding is only a thin layer of gold over baser metal, so the title now takes on a pejorative meaning as to the novel's time, events and people.

Although not one of Twain's more well-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication in 1873. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. 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. (Description by Wikipedia)

Listen online
0:00/ 0:00 Created with Sketch. LIVESleep  SpeedNormal  
00 - Preface01 - Chapter 102 - Chapter 203 - Chapter 304 - Chapter 405 - Chapter 506 - Chapter 607 - Chapter 708 - Chapter 809 - Chapter 910 - Chapter 1011 - Chapter 1112 - Chapter 1213 - Chapter 1314 - Chapter 1415 - Chapter 1516 - Chapter 1617 - Chapter 1718 - Chapter 1819 - Chapter 1920 - Chapter 2021 - Chapter 2122 - Chapter 2223 - Chapter 2324 - Chapter 2425 - Chapter 2526 - Chapter 2627 - Chapter 2728 - Chapter 2829 - Chapter 2930 - Chapter 3031 - Chapter 3132 - Chapter 3233 - Chapter 3334 - Chapter 3435 - Chapter 3536 - Chapter 3637 - Chapter 3738 - Chapter 3839 - Chapter 3940 - Chapter 4041 - Chapter 4142 - Chapter 4243 - Chapter 4344 - Chapter 4445 - Chapter 4546 - Chapter 4647 - Chapter 4748 - Chapter 4849 - Chapter 4950 - Chapter 5051 - Chapter 5152 - Chapter 5253 - Chapter 5354 - Chapter 5455 - Chapter 5556 - Chapter 5657 - Chapter 5758 - Chapter 5859 - Chapter 5960 - Chapter 6061 - Chapter 6162 - Chapter 6263 - Chapter 63
On this page you can listen to the audiobook The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain! Listen online in good quality, from your Android phone, iphone or pc at any time.

Comments

The minimum comment length is 50 characters. comments are moderated
No comments yet. You can be the first!