TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twain,Mark
AU  - Warner,Charles Dudley
TI  - The Gilded Age, Part 5
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Satire
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
KW  - Legislators -- Fiction
KW  - Speculation -- Fiction
KW  - Political corruption -- Fiction
KW  - Businessmen -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today; Release date is 2004-06-20; Produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Gilded Age, Part 5" by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satirical novel published in 1873. This collaboration exposes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America through the story of a struggling rural family attempting to profit from a vast land inheritance. As the beautiful adopted daughter Laura navigates Washington society as a lobbyist, and ambitious young men pursue fortune through land speculation, the novel reveals how the thirst for wealth and power corrupts every level of society—ultimately giving this notorious era its enduring name. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5822
ER  -