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The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War. This period is often referred to as the “Gilded Age” because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the time is exemplified through two fictional narratives: one, of the Hawkins, a poor family from Tennessee that tries to persuade the government to purchase their seventy-five thousand acres of unimproved land.

Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)

Warner beschreibt in neunzehn Kapiteln die Wonnen und Mühen des Gärtners, der zusammen mit seinem Kater Calvin versucht, Herr über Wetterlage und Unkrautstand zu bleiben. Warner war ein hingebungsvoller Amateurgärtner, der mit seinem engsten Freund und Nachbarn Mark Twain denselben Sinn für Humor, Verrücktheiten und den Spaß an ausgefallenen und treffenden Formulierungen teilte. Das Gärtnern nutzt Warner als thematisches Sprungbrett, um über Ehe, Kindererziehung, Freundschaft und Nachbarschaft, Moral und Psychologie, Politik und Wirtschaft zu schreiben.

Charles Dudley Warner was an essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain. My Summer in a Garden is a landmark of American garden writing. In the book, Warner chronicles his work in the garden, where he and his cat, Calvin, try to ward off a stream of invaders, from the neighbors' cows and thieving children, to the pusley weed. He makes the rounds of his beloved vegetable patch, to feel the sun on his back, the hoe in his hands, and to ponder the philosophical implications of contact with the earth, and companionship with gently growing things.