Gilded city

Author: Donald
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Donald's works vividly depict the scandals and sensational events of New York City in 1890 that are now forgotten. His thorough critical spirit reminds us to deeply reflect on this gilded society. – The New York Observer
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, New York was known as the Gilded Age. The city was rapidly evolving, with wealth flowing in; the Edith Wharton, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and other world-famous figures shone like stars. The author did not follow the conventional path but instead broke new ground, narrating another side of this Gilded Age—not the one that showed gentlemanly demeanor and refined conversation, but the one filled with the struggle of the survival of the fittest and danger. She selected many sensational real-life events of the time, from the tragic incident of a crowd trampling each other in a frenzy to witness a luxurious wedding in New York to the bizarre story of a zoo elephant causing hours of destruction due to sexual frenzy. She also recorded various characters, such as Stanford White, William Merritt Chase, the Midnight, the exotic dancer Little Egypt, and so on. This book vividly depicts the scandals and sensational events of New York City in 1890 that are now forgotten, with its thorough critical spirit, reminding us to deeply reflect on this gilded, dazzling society.