THE GILDED AGE, Part 1

THE GILDED AGE

A Tale of Today

By

Mark Twain
and
Charles Dudley Warner

1873

Part 1.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri

CHAPTER II.
He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay

CHAPTER III
Uncle Daniel's Apparition and PrayeR

CHAPTER IV
The Steamboat Explosion

CHAPTER V
Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers

CHAPTER VI
Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land

CHAPTER VII
Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism

CHAPTER VIII
Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins

CHAPTER IX
Death of Judge Hawkins

ILLUSTRATIONS

     FRONTPIECE COL. SELLERS FEEDING HIS FAMILY ON EXPECTATIONS
1.  CONTEMPLATION
2.  THE SQUIRE's HOUSE
S.  THE U. S. MAIL
4.  OBEDSTOWN MALES
5.  HURRYING
6.  THE SQUIRE'S KITCHEN
7.  "FOR GOODNESS SAKE SI"
8.  THE LAST COG WHEEL 9.   10.   11.   12.   13.   14.   15.   16.   17.   18.   19.   20.   21.   22.   23.   24.   25.   26.   27.   28.   29.   30.   31.   32.   33.   34.   35.   36.  

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