Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Most of his finest work includes many genres such as humor, satire, and philosophical fiction. "The Gilded Age" is a satirical novel co-written by Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. It extensively mocks and criticises political corruption, greed and human pettiness in America in the period after Civil War, which many historians call the Gilded Age.