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The Gilded Age

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The Gilded Age

By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Robin Field
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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.

Public Domain (P)2016 eChristian
Classics Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Political Satire Comedy Witty Funny War
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Great performer! Twain lived on Capitol Hill for several months. I plan to research his coauthor.

Remarkable book. Great performance!

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Very enjoyable book. I love Twain and this collaboration is entertaining and funny. I am astonished that it’s never been made into a movie. Great characters and storylines. The narration is superb.

Excellent Twain collaboration . Loved this!

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Twain & coauthor tell an enchanting tale rich in history and humor. His use of regional dialects and his ability to poke fun at humans of every kind is always hilarious. Twain leaves no political entity un-roasted nor any profession without caricature. The performance on this audio book is superb with many great voices and a narrator who must be none other than Samuel Clemens himself!!

The Master of Satire!

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I tried playing through phone, car, headphones and speakers and still had large portions of noticeable static (especially in chapters 17 and 42 or maybe it was 45). Otherwise, excellent performance and significant social commentary.

Excellent work. Static in some chapters

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The basis of this book--corruption and greed--are an age-old story, and Ttwain could have written a similar storyline today. A serious subject, but told through Twain's wry wit and humor! Thoroughly enjoyable!
However, there are portions of the reading with so much static they are fairly "unlistenable".
In one chapter, the reader can hear birds singing in the background...which bothered me not at all!

Great Story, but Audio Quality Not Always Good

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Besides Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Fin, not a lot of novels by Mark Twain are well known to me. I’d not realized just how corrupt politics were, even back in his day. His edgy sarcasm is the perfect narrative voice for this historic fiction and the narrator did a superb delivery.

Enlightening and captivating

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