What is Man? and Other Essays
by Mark Twain
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About this eBook
- Author
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Title
- What Is Man? and Other Essays
- Credits
- An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- American essays
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 70
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70
- Release Date
- September 13, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS — By Mark Twain — (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) — CONTENTS
- 2.WHAT IS MAN? — I — a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit — II — Man’s Sole Impulse—the Securing of His Own Approval — III — Instances in Point — IV — Training — V — After an Interval of Days — VI — Instinct and Thought
- 3.THE DEATH OF JEAN
- 4.THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE — I
- 5.HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK
- 6.THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION
- 7.A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY
- 8.SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY — Interlaken, Switzerland, 1891.
- 9.AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER — Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891
- 10.WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
- 11.ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT — In the appendix to Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson one finds this anecdote:
- 12.A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET
- 13.AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY — I
- 14.CONCERNING TOBACCO
- 15.THE BEE
- 16.TAMING THE BICYCLE
- 17.IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? — (from My Autobiography ) — I — II — III — FACTS — IV — CONJECTURES — V — VI — VII — VIII — SHAKESPEARE AS A LAWYER [5] — IX — X — THE REST OF THE EQUIPMENT — XI — XII — IRREVERENCE — XIII — THE END
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