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An edition of The Gilded Age (1873)

The Gilded Age

A Tale of To-day

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A biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America in which Twain and his neighbor attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their time.

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Fiction, Legislators in fiction, Legislators, Political corruption, Businessmen, Speculation in fiction, Businessmen in fiction, Speculation, Political corruption in fiction, City and town life in fiction, City and town life, Politics and government, Political fiction, Fiction, political, Washington (d.c.), fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), City life, Fiction, humorous, general, Greek anthology, Land speculation, Vie urbaine, Romans, nouvelles, Parlementaires
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land — He Decides to Remove to Missouri Page 17 CHAPTER II. He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay Page 31 CHAPTER III. Uncle Daniel's Apparition and Prayer Page 36 CHAPTER IV. The Steamboat Explosion Page 41 CHAPTER V. Adoption of the Little Girl Laura — Arrival at Missouri — Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers Page 53 CHAPTER VI. Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family — Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land Page 62 CHAPTER VII. Colonel Sellers at Home — His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism Page 75 CHAPTER VIII. Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins Page 83 CHAPTER IX. Death of Judge Hawkins Page 98 CHAPTER X. Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid Under the Village Gossip Page 100 CHAPTER XI. A Dinner with Col. Sellers— Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips Page 108 CHAPTER XII. Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly — Arrangements to Go West as Engineers Page 114 CHAPTER XIII. Rail-Road Contractors and Party Traveling — Philip and Harry form the Acquaintance of Col. Sellers Page 122 CHAPTER XIV. J Ruth Bolton and Her Parents Page 132 CHAPTER XV. Visitors of the Boltons — Mr. Bigler "Sees the Legislature" — Ruth Bolton Commences Medical Studies Page 139 CHAPTER XVI. The Engineers Detained at St. Louis — Off for Camp — Reception by Jeff Thompson Page 149 CHAPTER XVII. The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone's Landing Page 159 CHAPTER XVIII. Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby — Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye Page 168 CHAPTER XIX. Harry Brierly Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington Page 177 CHAPTER XX. Senator Abner Dilworthy Visits Hawkeye — Addresses the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura , Page 186 CHAPTER XXI. Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary — The Montagues — Ruth Becomes Quite Gay — Alice Montague Page 194 CHAPTER XXII. Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill — Harry Does the Agreeable to Ruth Page 202 CHAPTER XXIII. Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone's Landing — Philip in New York Studying Engineering Page 213 CHAPTER XXIV. Washington and Its Sights — The Appropriation Bill Reported From the Committee and Passed Page 217 CHAPTER XXV. Energetic Movements at Stone's Landing — Everything Booming — A Grand Smash Up Page 225 CHAPTER XXVI. The Boltons — Ruth at Home — Visitors and Speculations Page 235 CHAPTER XXVII. Col. Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views of the Prospects Page 244 CHAPTER XXVIII. Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street — How Appropriations Are Obtained and Their Cost Page 260 CHAPTER XXIX. Philip's Experience With the Rail-Road Conductor — Surveys His Mining Property Page 269 CHAPTER XXX. Laura and Col. Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy Page 274 CHAPTER XXXI. Philip and Harry at the Boltons' — Philip Seriously Injured — Ruth's First Case of Surgery Page 278 CHAPTER XXXII. Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington Page 288 CHAPTER XXXIII. Society in Washington — The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy Page 295 CHAPTER XXXIV. Grand Scheme For Disposing of the Tennessee Land — Laura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires Page 314 CHAPTER XXXV. About Senators — Their Privileges and Habits Page 320 CHAPTER XXXVI. An Hour in a Book Store Page 329 CHAPTER XXXVII. Representative Buckstone and Laura's Strategic Coquetry Page 335 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Reception Day in Washington — Laura Again Meets Col, Selby and the Effect Upon Her Page 340 CHAPTER XXXIX. Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation Page 349 CHAPTER XL. Col. Sellers' Career in Washington — Laura's Intimacy With Col. Selby is Talked About Page 355 CHAPTER XLI. Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated With Laura — Declares His Love and Gets Laughed At Page 362 CHAPTER XLII. How The Hon. Mr. Trollop Was Induced to Vote For Laura's Bill Page 372 CHAPTER XLIII. Progress of the Bill in the House Page 390 CHAPTER XLIV. Philip in Washington — Visits Laura Page 396 CHAPTER XLV. The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives Page 404 CHAPTER XLVI. Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col. Selby in New York Page 416 CHAPTER XLVII. Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors Page 426 CHAPTER XLVIII. Mr. Bolton Says Yes Again — Philip Returns to the Mines Page 434 CHAPTER XLIX. The Coal Vein Found and Lost Again — Philip and the Boltons — Elated and Then Cruelly Disappointed Page 443 CHAPTER L. Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law With Mr. Montague — The 'Squire Invests in the Mine — Ruth Declares Her Love for Philip Page 453 CHAPTER LI. Col. Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress Page 466 CHAPTER LII. How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington's Interests Page 473 CHAPTER LIII. Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re-election — He Becomes a Shining Light Page 476 CHAPTER LIV. The Trial of Laura for Murder Page 484 CHAPTER LV. The Trial Continued— Evidence of Harry Brierly Page 494 CHAPTER LVI. The Trial Continued — Col. Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the Situation Page 503 CHAPTER LVII. The Momentous Day — Startling News — Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber and Defeated— The Bill Lost in the Senate Page 513 CHAPTER LVIII. Verdict, Not Guilty ! — Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture — Philip back at the Mines Page 521 CHAPTER LIX. The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and Its Results Page 530 CHAPTER LX. Laura Decides on her Course — Attempts to Lecture and Fails — Found Dead in her Chair Page 543 CHAPTER LXI. Col. Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington Page 552 CHAPTER LXII. Philip Discouraged — One More Effort — Finds Coal at Last Page 560 CHAPTER LXIII. Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth — Ruth Convalescent — Alice Page 567 APPENDIX Page 576

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PS1311 .G55 1987, PZ3.C59 G2, PS1311 .A1 1874

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