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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Mark Twain

Meanwhile, two young men pursue fortune through land speculation.

"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satirical novel. Meanwhile, two young men pursue fortune through land speculation.

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These neighbors stood a few moments looking at the mail carrier reflectively while he talked; but fatigue soon began to show itself, and one after another they climbed up and occupied the top rail of the fence, hump-shouldered and grave, like a company of buzzards assembled for supper and listening for the death-rattle. Old Damrell said:

“Tha hain’t no news ’bout the jedge, hit ain’t likely?”

“Cain’t tell for sartin; some thinks he’s gwyne to be ’long toreckly, and some thinks ’e hain’t. Russ Mosely he tote ole Hanks he mought git to Obeds tomorrer or nex’ day he reckoned.”

“Well, I wisht I knowed. I got a ‘prime sow and pigs in the cote-house, and I hain’t got no place for to put ’em. If the jedge is a gwyne to hold cote, I got to roust ’em out, I reckon. But tomorrer’ll do, I ’spect.”

The speaker bunched his thick lips together like the stem-end of a tomato and shot a bumble-bee dead that had lit on a weed seven feet away. One after another the several chewers expressed a charge of tobacco juice and delivered it at the deceased with steady, aim and faultless accuracy.

“What’s a stirrin’, down ’bout the Forks?” continued Old Damrell.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I.
  2. 02The SQUIRE’s House
  3. 03The U. S. Mail
  4. 04Obedstown Males
  5. 05Hurrying
  6. 06The Squire’s Kitchen
  7. 07"For Goodness Sake Si"
  8. 08The Last Cog Wheel
  9. 09Gone Up
  10. 10Tail Piece
  11. 11Chapter II.
  12. 12The Orphans Last Gift
  13. 13Mrs Hawkins and Clay at the Grave of His Mother
  14. 14Chapter III
  15. 15"Children, Dar’s Sumfin’ a Comin
  16. 16"Heah I Is, Lord, Heah I Is!”
  17. 17Tail Piece
  18. 18Chapter IV
  19. 19Not Encouraged
  20. 20She’s Gaining
  21. 21"By the Mark Twain!”
  22. 22Fast Together
  23. 23One of the Victims
  24. 24Chapter V
  25. 25The Procession—Forward March!
  26. 26The Happy Wife
  27. 27Chapter VI
  28. 28Laura
  29. 29Ready to Sell
  30. 30Stock Rising
  31. 31A Family Council
  32. 32Tail Piece
  33. 33Chapter VII
  34. 34Attempted Corner in Specie
  35. 35A Brilliant Idea
  36. 36Chapter VIII
  37. 37Big Things Shown Up
  38. 38Col. Sellers Blowing Bubbles for Washington
  39. 39Gen Boswell’s Office
  40. 40Tail Piece
  41. 41Chapter IX
  42. 42Consolation
  43. 43The Dying Father
  44. 44Tail Piece
  45. 45Chapter X
  46. 46Laura Seeking Por Evidences of Her Birth
  47. 47Ever True
  48. 48Chapter XI
  49. 49A Healthy Meal
  50. 50Chapter XII
  51. 51Philip at the Theatre
  52. 52What Philip Learned at College
  53. 53Chapter XIII
  54. 54The Delegate’s Interesting Game
  55. 55The Person of Importance
  56. 56"Not That"
  57. 57Ruth’s Mother Makes Enquiries
  58. 58The Letter
  59. 59Chapter XV
  60. 60Caring for the Poor

About this edition

Author
Mark Twain
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
742 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers