10 Gilded Age Classics

10 Gilded Age Classics gathers six major American writers whose fiction interrogates the glitter, instability, and moral contradictions of the late nineteenth century. Moving from Mark Twain's mordant social satire and Louisa May Alcott's domestic and reform-minded narratives to Henry James's psychological nuance, Edith Wharton's scrutiny of elite ritual, Robert Barr's brisk popular storytelling, ...