Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]; Charles Dudley Warner - Life on the Mississippi & the Gilded Age

London, Chatto & Windus, 1909-1922. Cloth. Two smart uniform volumes of the works of Mark Twain, with illustrations throughout. Two volumes. New impressions. Written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, and essayist praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced." With his friend Charles Dudley Warner, an American essayist and novelist as the co-author of The Gilded Age. This set contains: Life on the Mississippi, 1909. A memoir of Twain's days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War and a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then on to Saint Paul, many years after the war. Illustrated with a frontispiece and over three hundred in-text images. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1922. A novel concerning the efforts of a poor rural family to become affluent by selling the 75,000 acres of unimproved land acquired by their patriarch, Silas "Si" Hawkins. Satirizing greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America, the work quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life. Illustrated with a frontispiece and over two hundred in-text images. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small handling mark. Minor age toning and light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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