Gilded Age

22 books

1855: The American Tycoon cover
1855: The American Tycoon Baby Bottle Fighter Zongheng Chinese Network · 2014 Modern engineer Luo Yong wakes up transmigrated into Scrooge MacDonald, an eleven-year-old boy in 1855 America. Drawing on his knowledge of history, h…
The Indian Who Would Defy Heaven cover
The Indian Who Would Defy Heaven Cheng Huang Ju Lü S Qidian Wang Yaozu, a modern office worker, is transported to nineteenth-century North America and becomes an Indian captured by cowboys and about to be scalp…
The Devil in the White City cover
Rating 3.9
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson Nanhai Publication Company · 2019 In 1893, Gilded Age America was in the throes of rapid change, and Chicago, having won the right to host the World's Columbian Exposition, was despera…
1855: An American Tycoon cover
1855: An American Tycoon Baby Bottle Fighter 1855: An American Tycoon is a historical time-travel web novel by Nai Ping Zhan Dou Ji (Feeding-Bottle Fighter), serialized on Zongheng Chinese and co…
The Rise of Silas Lapham cover
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells Yilin Press · 2005 The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel published in 1885 by William Dean Howells, a leading figure in American realism, and his best-known work. The prot…
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Reborn in America: A Fortune to Rival the World Nianyutou Reborn in America: A Fortune to Rival the World is a historical web novel by internet writer Catfish Head. It began serialization on platforms such as…
National Geographic (US Edition), May 2008, Vol. 213, No. 5 · China: Inside the Dragon (Special Issue) cover
Rating 2.4
National Geographic (US Edition), May 2008, Vol. 213, No. 5 · China: Inside the Dragon (Special Issue) Peter Hessler / Leslie T. Chang / Amy Tan / Ted C. Fishman / Brook Larmer / Chris Johns National Geographic Society · 2008 This is the May 2008 issue of National Geographic (Vol. 213, No. 5), a rare special issue devoted entirely to a single country, headlined "China: Insi…
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt cover
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T·J·斯泰尔斯 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2013 This is the complete Chinese translation of the biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877) by the American historian T. J. Stiles, issued as a two-…
Democracy: An American Novel cover
Democracy: An American Novel Henry Brooks Adams Yilin Press · 2012 This is a novel published anonymously in his lifetime by the American historian Henry Brooks Adams; it became a bestseller on its appearance in 1880, …
The Devil in the White City cover
Rating 4.0
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson Nanhai Publication Company · 2019 In 1893, Chicago hosted the World's Columbian Exposition to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. The g…
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Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory Charles Scribner's Sons · 1899 Worldly Ways and Byways is a collection of essays by the American writer and artist Eliot Gregory (1854–1915), published in 1898–1899 and first issued…
Episodes in Van Bibber's Life cover
Episodes in Van Bibber's Life Richard Harding Davis · 1899 Episodes in Van Bibber's Life is a collection of short stories published in 1899 by the American writer and journalist Richard Harding Davis; four of …
The Financier cover
Rating 4.0
The Financier Theodore Dreiser Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 1979 The Financier is a novel by the American writer Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), first published in 1912. It is the first volume of the "Trilogy of Desir…
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5 cover
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5 Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) / Lin Salamo / Harriet E. Smith University of California Press · 1997 This volume is the fifth volume of Mark Twain's Letters, edited by the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley. It contains 309 l…
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Stories of a Western Town Octave Sannit / A. B. Frost · 1893 Stories of a Western Town is a short-story collection by the American writer Octave Thanet (pen name of Alice French, 1850–1934), published in 1893 by…
Scam: A Brief History of American Business Fraud cover
Rating 4.2
Scam: A Brief History of American Business Fraud 爱德华·J.巴莱森 / 陈代云 Truth & Wisdom Press · 2023 America's commercial development is a story of never-ending combat with swindlers. America has always been magnetic to devoted believers, shrewd busin…
The Smart Set: Correspondence & Conversations cover
Rating 2.7
The Smart Set: Correspondence & Conversations Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Main Chance cover
Rating 3.0
The Main Chance Meredith Nicholson Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport cover
Rating 2.5
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport Lawrence Perry Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Plum Tree cover
Rating 3.5
The Plum Tree Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …