Chicago Theater Review: THE GILDED AGE: A TALE OF TODAY (City Lit)
TOO TRUE TO BE NEW Subtitled "A Tale of Today," Mark Twain's early novel The Gilded Age was written in (and from) 1873, a dozen years before Huckleberry Finn rafted down the Mississippi. A conventional potboiler, its chapters were presumably grabbed from headlines detailing the scandalous Grant administration. Mr. Clemens' 630-page epic, which anticipates Gore Vidal's insider […]