5/11/2023 0 Comments The Gilded Age by Mark Twain![]() There are two views of this book: favorable and unfavorable. The means by which preferment is obtained in Washington are amply satirized. The monument erected to the memory of the Father of his country – a monument begun, but, of course, never completed – calls forth some strokes of bitter but not unjust humor. Family, social and national questions are all cleverly satirized. The work is full of hints and descriptions that take their rise from the frauds and outrages under which the country had plagued for so many years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The description severely winds up with the satirical verdict “No one to blame.” The project of Colonel Sellers for raising mules for the Southern markets is a satire upon the fraudulency and soap-bubble speculation of capitalists. The Gilded Age: a Tale of Today is a depiction of those crimes committed in the United States in the late 19th Century which so frequently went unpunished and of the casualties which ought to be called crimes. ![]()
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