About this audiobook
“The Golden Age” by Mark Twain and Charles Warner is a sharp and scale satirical novel that gave the name to an entire era in the history of the United States. It is an uncompromising, bright and bad-day work about the desire for rapid enrichment, political corruption and the collapse of great illusions. The story follows the fate of several families covered by the speculative fever of post-Citizen America. From naive provinces, years trying to sell unfertile unworthy land, to the cynical delts and delts of Washington, throwing dubious bills through congressmen's assassination. The center of the story is the colourful Colonel Seller, the untouchable projector, swallowing in the clouds of great millions of affairs, and the charming Laura Hawkins, trying to use her charm in the harsh world of culour policy. Twain and Warner, with a philigranic irony, share the concept of “golden” and “golden”: the external luxury, the rapid economic growth and the glow of success are only a thin glow, hiding under themselves speculation, falsehood, devastation and moral fall. ** About what the book is in three words:** Afery, Corruption, Humility. **Who to read:** To the lovers of the classic American satire, to the lovers of strange social novels, as well as to everyone who is interested in the stories of the "Golden Fever", the political and human struggle for financial success.
