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What is Man? and Other Essays

What is Man? and Other Essays

by Mark Twain

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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. 1.WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS — By Mark Twain — (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) — CONTENTS
  2. 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. 3.THE DEATH OF JEAN
  4. 4.THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE — I
  5. 5.HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK
  6. 6.THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION
  7. 7.A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY
  8. 8.SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY — Interlaken, Switzerland, 1891.
  9. 9.AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER — Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891
  10. 10.WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
  11. 11.ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT — In the appendix to Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson one finds this anecdote:
  12. 12.A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET
  13. 13.AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY — I
  14. 14.CONCERNING TOBACCO
  15. 15.THE BEE
  16. 16.TAMING THE BICYCLE
  17. 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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