/lit/ - Literature

I used to be into this stuff when I was a young man, but as I get older I no longer have interest in it. I've already got life figured out. Or maybe I just don't care. Either way, all I want now are stories and characters. Anyone else feel the same?

>>22822195
1876 by Gore Vidal is probably perfect for you, since it really gets into the nitty gritty of government, politics, and some culture. It's a fictional story but all the background facts its shoehorned into (and which was really Vidal's main concern) are historically accurate and surprisingly entertaining.

I think Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence was set in the Gilded Age. Considered one of the great American novels.

Mark Twain coauthored a book literally titled The Gilded Age.

>>19236185
Thanks for the sage advice, Pierce.