The Gilded Age
Subtitle: A Tale of To-day
By: by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner ; fully illustrated from new designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White, etc., etc.
Contributors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
Publisher: American Publishing Company
Published: 1874
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: City and town life -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.; Legislators -- United States -- Fiction.
Description: A biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America in which Twain and his neighbor attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their time.
Notes: "Sold by subscription only."

Advertisements: p. [3]-[6] at end.

BAL notes that this book exists in an unknown and "staggering" number of variants.

Johnson, M. Twain, p. 17-22 (var.)
Table of contents: label: CHAPTER I.
title: Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land — He Decides to Remove to Missouri
pagenum: 17; label: CHAPTER II.
title: He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay
pagenum: 31; label: CHAPTER III.
title: Uncle Daniel's Apparition and Prayer
pagenum: 36; label: CHAPTER IV.
title: The Steamboat Explosion
pagenum: 41; label: CHAPTER V.
title: Adoption of the Little Girl Laura — Arrival at Missouri — Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers
pagenum: 53; label: CHAPTER VI.
title: Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family — Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land
pagenum: 62; label: CHAPTER VII.
title: Colonel Sellers at Home — His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
pagenum: 75; label: CHAPTER VIII.
title: Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins
pagenum: 83; label: CHAPTER IX.
title: Death of Judge Hawkins
pagenum: 98; label: CHAPTER X.
title: Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid Under the Village Gossip
pagenum: 100; label: CHAPTER XI.
title: A Dinner with Col. Sellers— Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips
pagenum: 108; label: CHAPTER XII.
title: Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly — Arrangements to Go West as Engineers
pagenum: 114; label: CHAPTER XIII.
title: Rail-Road Contractors and Party Traveling — Philip and Harry form the Acquaintance of Col. Sellers
pagenum: 122; label: CHAPTER XIV.
title: J Ruth Bolton and Her Parents
pagenum: 132; label: CHAPTER XV.
title: Visitors of the Boltons — Mr. Bigler "Sees the Legislature" — Ruth Bolton Commences Medical Studies
pagenum: 139; label: CHAPTER XVI.
title: The Engineers Detained at St. Louis — Off for Camp — Reception by Jeff Thompson
pagenum: 149; label: CHAPTER XVII.
title: The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone's Landing
pagenum: 159; label: CHAPTER XVIII.
title: Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby — Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye
pagenum: 168; label: CHAPTER XIX.
title: Harry Brierly Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington
pagenum: 177; label: CHAPTER XX.
title: Senator Abner Dilworthy Visits Hawkeye — Addresses the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura ,
pagenum: 186; label: CHAPTER XXI.
title: Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary — The Montagues — Ruth Becomes Quite Gay — Alice Montague
pagenum: 194; label: CHAPTER XXII.
title: Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill — Harry Does the Agreeable to Ruth
pagenum: 202; label: CHAPTER XXIII.
title: Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone's Landing — Philip in New York Studying Engineering
pagenum: 213; label: CHAPTER XXIV.
title: Washington and Its Sights — The Appropriation Bill Reported From the Committee and Passed
pagenum: 217; label: CHAPTER XXV.
title: Energetic Movements at Stone's Landing — Everything Booming — A Grand Smash Up
pagenum: 225; label: CHAPTER XXVI.
title: The Boltons — Ruth at Home — Visitors and Speculations
pagenum: 235; label: CHAPTER XXVII.
title: Col. Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views of the Prospects
pagenum: 244; label: CHAPTER XXVIII.
title: Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street — How Appropriations Are Obtained and Their Cost
pagenum: 260; label: CHAPTER XXIX.
title: Philip's Experience With the Rail-Road Conductor — Surveys His Mining Property
pagenum: 269; label: CHAPTER XXX.
title: Laura and Col. Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy
pagenum: 274; label: CHAPTER XXXI.
title: Philip and Harry at the Boltons' — Philip Seriously Injured — Ruth's First Case of Surgery
pagenum: 278; label: CHAPTER XXXII.
title: Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington
pagenum: 288; label: CHAPTER XXXIII.
title: Society in Washington — The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
pagenum: 295; label: CHAPTER XXXIV.
title: Grand Scheme For Disposing of the Tennessee Land — Laura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires
pagenum: 314; label: CHAPTER XXXV.
title: About Senators — Their Privileges and Habits
pagenum: 320; label: CHAPTER XXXVI.
title: An Hour in a Book Store
pagenum: 329; label: CHAPTER XXXVII.
title: Representative Buckstone and Laura's Strategic Coquetry
pagenum: 335; label: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
title: Reception Day in Washington — Laura Again Meets Col, Selby and the Effect Upon Her
pagenum: 340; label: CHAPTER XXXIX.
title: Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation
pagenum: 349; label: CHAPTER XL.
title: Col. Sellers' Career in Washington — Laura's Intimacy With Col. Selby is Talked About
pagenum: 355; label: CHAPTER XLI.
title: Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated With Laura — Declares His Love and Gets Laughed At
pagenum: 362; label: CHAPTER XLII.
title: How The Hon. Mr. Trollop Was Induced to Vote For Laura's Bill
pagenum: 372; label: CHAPTER XLIII.
title: Progress of the Bill in the House
pagenum: 390; label: CHAPTER XLIV.
title: Philip in Washington — Visits Laura
pagenum: 396; label: CHAPTER XLV.
title: The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives
pagenum: 404; label: CHAPTER XLVI.
title: Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col. Selby in New York
pagenum: 416; label: CHAPTER XLVII.
title: Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors
pagenum: 426; label: CHAPTER XLVIII.
title: Mr. Bolton Says Yes Again — Philip Returns to the Mines
pagenum: 434; label: CHAPTER XLIX.
title: The Coal Vein Found and Lost Again — Philip and the Boltons — Elated and Then Cruelly Disappointed
pagenum: 443; label: CHAPTER L.
title: Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law With Mr. Montague — The 'Squire Invests in the Mine — Ruth Declares Her Love for Philip
pagenum: 453; label: CHAPTER LI.
title: Col. Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress
pagenum: 466; label: CHAPTER LII.
title: How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington's Interests
pagenum: 473; label: CHAPTER LIII.
title: Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re-election — He Becomes a Shining Light
pagenum: 476; label: CHAPTER LIV.
title: The Trial of Laura for Murder
pagenum: 484; label: CHAPTER LV.
title: The Trial Continued— Evidence of Harry Brierly
pagenum: 494; label: CHAPTER LVI.
title: The Trial Continued — Col. Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the Situation
pagenum: 503; label: CHAPTER LVII.
title: The Momentous Day — Startling News — Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber and Defeated— The Bill Lost in the Senate
pagenum: 513; label: CHAPTER LVIII.
title: Verdict, Not Guilty ! — Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture — Philip back at the Mines
pagenum: 521; label: CHAPTER LIX.
title: The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and Its Results
pagenum: 530; label: CHAPTER LX.
title: Laura Decides on her Course — Attempts to Lecture and Fails — Found Dead in her Chair
pagenum: 543; label: CHAPTER LXI.
title: Col. Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington
pagenum: 552; label: CHAPTER LXII.
title: Philip Discouraged — One More Effort — Finds Coal at Last
pagenum: 560; label: CHAPTER LXIII.
title: Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth — Ruth Convalescent — Alice
pagenum: 567; title: APPENDIX
pagenum: 576