Gilded Age

A Tale of Today

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781775452454
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Chapter I - Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He 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 Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers
• Chapter VI - Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land
• Chapter VII - Colonel Sellers at Home—His 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 Sellers—Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips
• Chapter XII - Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly—Arrangements to Go West as Engineers
• Chapter XIII - Rail—Road Contractors and Party Traveling—Philip and Harry Form the Acquaintance of Col Sellers
• Chapter XIV - Ruth Bolton and Her Parents
• Chapter XV - Visitors of the Boltons—Mr Bigler "Sees the Legislature"—Ruth Bolton Commences Medical Studies
• Chapter XVI - The Engineers Detained at St Louis—Off for Camp—Reception by Jeff
• Chapter XVII - The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone's Landing
• Chapter XVIII - Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby—Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye
• Chapter XIX - Harry Brierly Infatuated with Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington
• Chapter XX - Senator Abner Dilworthy Visits Hawkeye—Addresses the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura
• Chapter XXI - Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary—The Montagues—Ruth Becomes Quite Gay—Alice Montague
• Chapter XXII - Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill—Harry Does the Agreeable to Ruth
• Chapter XXIII - Harry at Washington Lobbying for an Appropriation for Stone's Landing —Philip in New York Studying Engineering
• Chapter XXIV - Washington and its Sights—The Appropriation Bill Reported from the Committee and Passed
• Chapter XXV - Energetic Movements at Stone's Landing—Everything Booming—A Grand Smash Up
• Chapter XXVI - The Boltons—Ruth at Home—Visitors and Speculations
• Chapter XXVII - Col Sellers Comforts His Wife with His Views on the Prospects
• Chapter XXVIII - Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street—How Appropriations Are Obtained and Their Cost
• Chapter XXIX - Philip's Experience with the Rail—Road Conductor—Surveys 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'—Philip Seriously Injured—Ruth's First Case of Surgery
• Chapter XXXII - Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington
• Chapter XXXIII - Society in Washington—The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
• Chapter XXXIV - Grand Scheme for Disposing of the Tennessee Land—Laura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires
• Chapter XXXV - About Senators—Their 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 Washington—Laura 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 Washington—Laura's Intimacy with Col Selby is Talked About
• Chapter XLI - Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated with Laura—Declares 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 Washington—Visits 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 Again—Philip Returns to the Mines
• Chapter XLIX - The Coal Vein Found and Lost Again—Philip and the Boltons—Elated and then Cruelly Disappointed
• Chapter L - Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law with Mr Montague—The Squire Invests in the Mine—Ruth 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-Election—He Becomes a Shining Light
• Chapter LIV - The Trial of Laura for Murder
• Chapter LV - The Trial Continued—Evidence of Harry Brierly
• Chapter LVI - The Trial Continued—Col Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the Situation
• Chapter LVII - The Momentous Day—Startling News—Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber and Defeated—The Bill Lost in the Senate
• Chapter LVIII - Verdict, Not Guilty !—Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture—Philip Back at the Mines
• Chapter LIX - The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and its Results
• Chapter LX - Laura Decides on Her Course—Attempts to Lecture and Fails—Found Dead in Her Chair
• Chapter LXI - Col. Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington
• Chapter LXII - Philip Discouraged—One More Effort—Finds Coal at Last
• Chapter LXIII - Philip Leaves Ilium to See Ruth—Ruth Convalescent—Alice
• Appendix
• Endnotes