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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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574

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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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Washington (D.C.), United States

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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

Edition Notes

"Sold by subscription only."

Advertisements: p. [3]-[6] at end.

BAL notes that this book exists in an unknown and "staggering" number of variants.

Johnson, M. Twain, p. 17-22 (var.)

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Library of Congress
PS1311 .G55 1987, PZ3.C59 G2, PS1311 .A1 1874

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 17-574, [6] p., [20] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
574

ID Numbers

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OL24178074M
Internet Archive
cu31924022010148
LCCN
17006111
OCLC/WorldCat
19373517

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