What Is Man?

by Mark Twain

Overview

This volume includes the most important essays by American novelist and writer Mark Twain. Headlined by "What Is Man?", his fictional dialogue regarding the nature of man, there are also the followings works included: The Death Of Jean The Turning-Point Of My Life How To Make History Dates Stick The Memorable Assassination A Scrap Of Curious History Switzerland, The Cradle Of Liberty At The Shrine Of St. Wagner William Dean Howells English As She Is Taught A Simplified Alphabet As Concerns Interpreting The Deity Concerning Tobacco The Bee Taming The Bicycle Is Shakespeare Dead?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783849644147
Publisher:	Jazzybee Verlag
Publication date:	05/05/2014
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
File size:	432 KB

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (pen name Mark Twain) was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. In 1839 the Clemens family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River where young Sam experienced the excitement and colorful sights of the waterfront. Like many authors of his day he had little formal education. His education came from the print shops and newspaper offices where he worked as a youth. He first wrote under the pen name, "Mark Twain" (meaning "two fathoms" in riverboat-talk) in 1863. "Twain" wrote his first popular story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in 1865. He continued to travel as a correspondent for various newspapers and in 1869 his travel letters from Europe were collected into the popular book, "The Innocents Abroad." Encouraged by his success Twain married Olivia Langdon and settled down in Hartford, Connecticut to his most productive years as a writer. Between 1873 and 1889 he wrote seven novels including his Mississippi River books as well as The Prince and the Pauper (1882) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). As Twain's life and career progressed he became increasingly pessimistic, losing much of the humorous, cocky tone of his earlier years. More and more of his work expressed the gloomy view that all human motives are ultimately selfish. Even so Twain is best remembered as a humorist who used his sharp wit and comic exaggeration to attack the false pride and self-importance he saw in humanity.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction

The Texts

Supplements
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