十九世纪七十年代的美国，原始资本积累加剧，工业文明“初级阶段”的拜金主义无可遏制地膨胀，投机牟利之风盛行，贪污受贿，营私舞弊丑闻不断，道德沦丧，罪恶渊获无处不在，马克·吐温以辛辣的笔调，刻划出一系列投机家、企业家及政客的虚伪面目和心态，向人们展示了那个时代的缩影。 In the United States in the 1870s, the accumulation of primitive capital intensified. The money worship in the “primary stage” of industrial civilization expanded uncontrollably. The prevalence of speculation and profit-making, corruption and bribery, constant scandals of malpractices, morals, and abyss of sin Whereabouts, Mark Twain in spicy style, delineated a series of hypocrisy speculators, entrepreneurs and politicians and mentality, to show people the epitome of that era.