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Charles Dudley Warner

1829–1900

A popular 19th-century American essayist and editor, he mixed wit with sharp observations about everyday life, travel, and politics. He is still widely remembered for co-writing The Gilded Age with Mark Twain, a title that became shorthand for an entire era.

57 Audiobooks

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Dudley Warner

A Little Journey in the World

by Charles Dudley Warner

Our Italy

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Story of Pocahontas

by Charles Dudley Warner

In the Wilderness

by Charles Dudley Warner

Captain John Smith

by Charles Dudley Warner

My Summer in a Garden

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age, Part 1.

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

The Works of Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Dudley Warner

Being a Boy

by Charles Dudley Warner

My Winter on the Nile

by Charles Dudley Warner

Washington Irving

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Golden House

by Charles Dudley Warner

Washington Irving

by Charles Dudley Warner

Quotes and Images From The Works of Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Dudley Warner

That Fortune

by Charles Dudley Warner

Their Pilgrimage

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age, Part 6.

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Saunterings

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age, Part 3.

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age, Part 7.

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Backlog Studies

by Charles Dudley Warner

Equality

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age, Part 2.

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age, Part 5.

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age, Part 4.

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Certain Diversities of American Life

by Charles Dudley Warner

The American Newspaper

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Dudley Warner

As We Were Saying

by Charles Dudley Warner

In the Levant

by Charles Dudley Warner

On Horseback

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Pilgrim, and the American of Today—(1892)

by Charles Dudley Warner

How Spring Came in New England

by Charles Dudley Warner

England

by Charles Dudley Warner

Nine Short Essays

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Education of the Negro

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Relation of Literature to Life

by Charles Dudley Warner

Literary Copyright

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4

by Charles Dudley Warner

Modern Fiction

by Charles Dudley Warner

The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote

by Charles Dudley Warner

Fashions in Literature

by Charles Dudley Warner

As We Go

by Charles Dudley Warner

Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada

by Charles Dudley Warner

What Is Your Culture to Me?

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Indeterminate Sentence: What Shall Be Done with the Criminal Class?

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Novel and the Common School

by Charles Dudley Warner

Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Froude's "Progress"

by Charles Dudley Warner

The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2

by Charles Dudley Warner

Being a Boy

by Charles Dudley Warner

Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Dudley Warner

Some Causes of the Prevailing Discontent

by Charles Dudley Warner

About the author

Born in Plainfield, Massachusetts, in 1829, Charles Dudley Warner grew up in New York and later studied at Hamilton College. He trained in law, but writing and journalism became his real calling.

Warner built his reputation as an essayist, travel writer, and editor, especially through his long work with the Hartford Courant. He also became known nationally through his connection with Mark Twain: the two collaborated on The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today in 1873, and the book’s title helped give lasting language to late-19th-century American life.

Alongside novels and travel books, Warner wrote warm, thoughtful essays that often blended humor with social criticism. He died in 1900, but his work still offers a lively picture of American culture in the decades after the Civil War.