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The only book that Mark Twain ever wrote in collaboration with another author, The Gilded Age is a novel that viciously and hilariously satirizes the greed, materialism, and corruption that characterized much of upper-class America in the nineteenth century. The title term -- inspired by a line in Shakespeare's King John -- has become synonymous with the excess of the era.
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- Contents
- Chapter I - Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee LandâHe Decides to Remove to Missouri
- Chapter II - He Meets with and Adopts the Boy Clay
- Chapter III - Uncle Daniel's Apparition and Prayer
- Chapter IV - The Steamboat Explosion
- Chapter V - Adoption of the Little Girl LauraâArrival at MissouriâReception by Colonel Beriah Sellers
- Chapter VI - Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins FamilyâProposed Sale of the Tennessee Land
- Chapter VII - Colonel Sellers at HomeâHis Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
- Chapter VIII - Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins
- Chapter IX - Death of Judge Hawkins
- Chapter X - Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid Under the Village Gossip
- Chapter XI - A Dinner with Col SellersâWonderful Effects of Raw Turnips
- Chapter XII - Philip Sterling and Henry BrierlyâArrangements to Go West as Engineers
- Chapter XIII - RailâRoad Contractors and Party TravelingâPhilip and Harry Form the Acquaintance of Col Sellers
- Chapter XIV - Ruth Bolton and Her Parents
- Chapter XV - Visitors of the BoltonsâMr Bigler "Sees the Legislature"âRuth Bolton Commences Medical Studies
- Chapter XVI - The Engineers Detained at St LouisâOff for CampâReception by Jeff
- Chapter XVII - The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone's Landing
- Chapter XVIII - Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel SelbyâDeserted and Returns to Hawkeye
- Chapter XIX - Harry Brierly Infatuated with Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington
- Chapter XX - Senator Abner Dilworthy Visits HawkeyeâAddresses the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura
- Chapter XXI - Ruth Bolton at Fallkill SeminaryâThe MontaguesâRuth Becomes Quite GayâAlice Montague
- Chapter XXII - Philip and Harry Visit FallkillâHarry Does the Agreeable to Ruth
- Chapter XXIII - Harry at Washington Lobbying for an Appropriation for Stone's Landing âPhilip in New York Studying Engineering
- Chapter XXIV - Washington and its SightsâThe Appropriation Bill Reported from the Committee and Passed
- Chapter XXV - Energetic Movements at Stone's LandingâEverything BoomingâA Grand Smash Up
- Chapter XXVI - The BoltonsâRuth at HomeâVisitors and Speculations
- Chapter XXVII - Col Sellers Comforts His Wife with His Views on the Prospects
- Chapter XXVIII - Visit to Headquarters in Wall StreetâHow Appropriations Are Obtained and Their Cost
- Chapter XXIX - Philip's Experience with the RailâRoad ConductorâSurveys His Mining Property
- Chapter XXX - Laura and Col. Sellers Go to Washington on Invitation of Senator Dilworthy
- Chapter XXXI - Philip and Harry at the Boltons'âPhilip Seriously InjuredâRuth's First Case of Surgery
- Chapter XXXII - Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington
- Chapter XXXIII - Society in WashingtonâThe Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
- Chapter XXXIV - Grand Scheme for Disposing of the Tennessee LandâLaura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires
- Chapter XXXV - About SenatorsâTheir Privileges and Habits
- Chapter XXXVI - An Hour in a Book Store
- Chapter XXXVII - Representative Buckstone and Laura's Strategic Coquetry
- Chapter XXXVIII - Reception Day in WashingtonâLaura Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect Upon Her
- Chapter XXXIX - Col Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation
- Chapter XL - Col Sellers' Career in WashingtonâLaura's Intimacy with Col Selby is Talked About
- Chapter XLI - Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated with LauraâDeclares His Love and Gets Laughed At
- Chapter XLII - How the Hon. Mr Trollop was Induced to Vote for Laura's Bill
- Chapter XLIII - Progress of the Bill in the House
- Chapter XLIV - Philip in WashingtonâVisits Laura
- Chapter XLV - The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives
- Chapter XLVI - Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col Selby in New York
- Chapter XLVII - Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors
- Chapter XLVIII - Mr Bolton Says Yes AgainâPhilip Returns to the Mines
- Chapter XLIX - The Coal Vein Found and Lost AgainâPhilip and the BoltonsâElated and then Cruelly Disappointed
- Chapter L - Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law with Mr MontagueâThe Squire Invests in the MineâRuth Declares Her Love for Philip
- Chapter LI - Col. Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress
- Chapter LII - How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington's Interests
- Chapter LIII - Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re-ElectionâHe Becomes a Shining Light
- Chapter LIV - The Trial of Laura for Murder
- Chapter LV - The Trial ContinuedâEvidence of Harry Brierly
- Chapter LVI - The Trial ContinuedâCol Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the Situation
- Chapter LVII - The Momentous DayâStartling NewsâDilworthy Denounced as a Briber and DefeatedâThe Bill Lost in the Senate
- Chapter LVIII - Verdict, Not Guilty !âLaura Free and Receives Propositions to LectureâPhilip Back at the Mines
- Chapter LIX - The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and its Results
- Chapter LX - Laura Decides on Her CourseâAttempts to Lecture and FailsâFound Dead in Her Chair
- Chapter LXI - Col. Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington
- Chapter LXII - Philip DiscouragedâOne More EffortâFinds Coal at Last
- Chapter LXIII - Philip Leaves Ilium to See RuthâRuth ConvalescentâAlice
- Appendix
- Endnotes