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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today MG_Gift_Guide For beneath a desert turnedFirst 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 naivete of their own time in a work which endures as