The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today by Mark Twain audiobook.

Genre: drama

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): 'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess.' Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel. Another interpretation of the title, of course, is the contrast between an ideal 'Golden Age,' and a less worthy 'Gilded Age,' as gilding is only a thin layer of gold over baser metal, so the title now takes on a pejorative meaning as to the novel's time, events and people.

Although not one of Twain's more well-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication in 1873. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. The book is remarkable for two reasons–-it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:10) Chapter 01

(00:24:08) Chapter 02

(00:32:00) Chapter 03

(00:41:15) Chapter 04

(01:02:16) Chapter 05

(01:20:04) Chapter 06

(01:42:16) Chapter 07

(01:57:35) Chapter 08

(02:16:10) Chapter 09

(02:28:50) Chapter 10

(02:45:44) Chapter 11

(02:57:45) Chapter 12

(03:13:44) Chapter 13

(03:31:20) Chapter 14

(03:43:53) Chapter 15

(04:01:35) Chapter 16

(04:18:50) Chapter 17

(04:33:09) Chapter 18

(04:49:50) Chapter 19

(05:06:32) Chapter 20

(05:21:06) Chapter 21

(05:35:46) Chapter 22

(05:53:43) Chapter 23

(05:59:35) Chapter 24

(06:17:48) Chapter 25

(06:29:03) Chapter 26

(06:45:44) Chapter 27

(06:57:04) Chapter 28

(07:18:29) Chapter 29

(07:34:45) Chapter 30

(07:41:11) Chapter 31

(07:59:16) Chapter 32

(08:11:31) Chapter 33

(08:46:56) Chapter 34

(08:57:41) Chapter 35

(09:10:52) Chapter 36

(09:21:28) Chapter 37

(09:29:13) Chapter 38

(09:43:28) Chapter 39

(09:53:33) Chapter 40

(10:06:28) Chapter 41

(10:22:24) Chapter 42

(10:52:45) Chapter 43

(11:03:24) Chapter 44

(11:17:33) Chapter 45

(11:39:07) Chapter 46

(11:56:27) Chapter 47

(12:10:44) Chapter 48

(12:24:52) Chapter 49

(12:40:06) Chapter 50

(12:57:39) Chapter 51

(13:11:47) Chapter 52

(13:15:55) Chapter 53

(13:30:50) Chapter 54

(13:46:49) Chapter 55

(14:06:06) Chapter 56

(14:24:43) Chapter 57

(14:37:40) Chapter 58

(14:53:04) Chapter 59

(15:15:46) Chapter 60

(15:31:30) Chapter 61

(15:44:27) Chapter 62

(15:55:19) Chapter 63

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