The Gilded Age
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The Gilded Age
Narrated by:
Robin Field
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Mark Twain
About this listen
First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naiveté of their own time in a work that endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.
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For me the weakness of the novel is its lack of focus on a singular central character, which creates a little distance between the reader and the work.
Its strength is that like Dickens, it is both engaging and amusing, and biting and incisive. One thread of the story about the pitfalls of land speculation reminded me much of the tale of the case of Jarndyce & Jarndyce in Dickens’ Bleak House. I wonder if these cautionary tales still hold as true today, and suspect so.
Twain is sometimes reduced to the author of his ‘children’s works’ such as The Tale of Tom Sawyer, but he, like Dickens, was a great social satirist and a great man of letters. Works such this should be brought back to popular audiences, perhaps through great tv serializations, as Dickens works are in the UK. Special shout out to the amazing narrator who really brought the characters (especially Sellers) to extraordinary life.
Brutal satire that is sadly relevant again
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