AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: The Gilded Age and Later Novels (Library of America) by Mark Twain, Hamlin L. Hill ISBN: 1-931082-10-3 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Be afraid--be very, very afraid
Comment: I have to confess that I seem to be about the only person on the face of the planet who's not a big Mark Twain fan. But after the Enron debacle, and in light of the affluenza sweeping our consumerist society, I recently went back to reread *The Gilded Age*. The more things change, the more they stay the same! Twain's dissection of unscrupulous tycoons wanting to get richer, corrupt senators jumping in bed with the tycoons by cutting them sweet political deals, and get-rich crazy middle class types who kiss up for their cut of the pie could've all been taken from last night's news. A brilliant and occasionally hilarious portrait of what happens to individuals in a souless age mesmerized by the almighty buck. A good warning to us today. I wish it could be required reading for everybody coming of age in these fast-paced times. (It's probably too late to do much good for Enron-type execs.)

One of the bonuses of this Library of America edition is that it includes *The American Claimnant,* a sequel to *Gilded Age*. I'd never heard of it before, and in all honesty didn't enjoy it as much as *Gilded*. But it's a good read for anybody with an afternoon of leisure time.

Similar Books:

	Title: Mark Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Library of America) by Mark Twain ISBN: 0940450070 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $30.00
	Title: Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1891-1910 (Library of America) by Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd ISBN: 0940450739 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $35.00
	Title: Mark Twain : Historical Romances : The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Library of America) by Samuel Clemens ISBN: 0940450828 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $35.00
	Title: Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : With Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents by Mark Twain ISBN: 0451525027 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95
	Title: Poems and Translations (Library of America) by Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth ISBN: 1931082413 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00