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The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today by Mark Twain

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,

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03:10
00 Preface
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20:57
01 Chapter 1
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07:52
02 Chapter 2
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09:15
03 Chapter 3
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21:01
04 Chapter 4
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17:48
05 Chapter 5
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22:11
06 Chapter 6
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15:19
07 Chapter 7
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18:34
08 Chapter 8
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12:39
09 Chapter 9
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16:53
10 Chapter 10
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12:01
11 Chapter 11
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15:58
12 Chapter 12
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17:35
13 Chapter 13
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12:33
14 Chapter 14
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17:42
15 Chapter 15
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17:15
16 Chapter 16
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14:19
17 Chapter 17
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16:41
18 Chapter 18
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16:42
19 Chapter 19
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