Journey into the hilarious and cutting satire that named an era—a masterpiece of ambition, speculation, and political corruption from America's greatest storyteller.

First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is the novel that defined a period of unprecedented economic boom and brutal social contrast. With his signature wit and piercing insight, Mark Twain, alongside co-author Charles Dudley Warner, skewers the get-rich-quick schemes, political graft, and hollow social climbing that characterized post-Civil War America.

Follow the fortunes of the hopelessly optimistic Colonel Beriah Sellers, a man forever on the brink of a million-dollar scheme, and the naïve young couple, Philip and Harry, who are drawn into his orbit. From the muddy streets of Missouri to the corrupt corridors of power in Washington, D.C., this sprawling tale exposes the stark divide between the romanticized "Golden Age" and the tawdry reality beneath.