<P>First published in 1873 <I>The Gilded Age</I> is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators ruthless bankers and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism.</P><P> With his characteristic wit and perception Mark Twain and his collaborator Charles Dudley Warner attack the greed lust and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.</P><P>An EChristian Inc production.</P>