Well to answer this question you first have to know what gilded means. Gilded means that something looks like gold but underneath it is really metal. Mark Twain thought that this was a lot like the time period. People were fascinated with the wealth, progress, adventure, and reform of this time. They were so wrapped up in it that they ignored the poverty and the corruption going on around them.
Gilded Age was the period that was roughly followed from the 1870s. The term gilded age was coined by the writers by the names of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
Gilded Age was written by Mark Twain and also Charles Dudley Warner. The book was written in 1873. The book was released in hardback.
The era was called the gilded age.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in 1873
1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner
Mark Twain described the period of the late 1800s in America as a Gilded Age because of the superficiality and corruption of the era.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. This Gilded Age collection encompasses Mark Twain's literary career, starting with his first novel-length, fictional work, The Gilded Age, which he co-wrote with Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age is not only an introduction to Mark Twain's imagination and prose, it's also the work that named the era, a time of gaudy excess and a new class of wealth, political corruption, and westward expansion.
The term is credited to a social satire by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (1873).
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner coined the term "Gilded Age" in their 1873 novel, which satirically depicted the period of rapid economic growth and ostentatious wealth in the late 19th century. They used "gilded" to suggest that beneath the surface of glittering prosperity lay significant social issues, including corruption, inequality, and moral decay. The name highlights the contrast between the era's apparent affluence and the underlying problems that plagued society.
The term "Gilded Age" was coined by author Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" published in 1873. It refers to the period in American history from the 1870s to the early 1900s characterized by rapid industrialization, wealth accumulation, and social issues masked by a thin layer of prosperity and progress.
Mark Twain