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The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today by Mark Twain

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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 th...

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50 Chapter 50 13.11.2025 17:33

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51 Chapter 51 12.11.2025 14:07

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52 Chapter 52 11.11.2025 4:08

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53 Chapter 53 10.11.2025 14:54

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54 Chapter 54 09.11.2025 15:58

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55 Chapter 55 08.11.2025 19:17

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56 Chapter 56 07.11.2025 18:37

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57 Chapter 57 06.11.2025 12:57

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58 Chapter 58 05.11.2025 15:24

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59 Chapter 59 04.11.2025 22:42

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60 Chapter 60 03.11.2025 15:44

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61 Chapter 61 02.11.2025 12:56

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62 Chapter 62 01.11.2025 10:51

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63 Chapter 63 31.10.2025 14:05

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