Mark twain referred to the Gilded Age as a time of “ridiculous
excess”. So the correct option for the
question is option “1”. The Gilded Age has the reference in the book “A Tale of
Today” written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner was written in the year
1873. It is a novel that mainly deals with political corruption and greed after
the age of Civil War. This period after the Civil War is actually referred to
as the Gilded Age.
