What Is Man? and Other Essays
by Mark Twain
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Chapters (50)
- WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS
- (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910)
- CONTENTS
- 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
- THE DEATH OF JEAN
- THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE
- I
- HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK
- THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION
- A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY
- SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY
- Interlaken, Switzerland, 1891.
- AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER
- Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891
- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
- ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT
- In the appendix to Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson one finds this anecdote:
- A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET
- AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY
- I
- CONCERNING TOBACCO
- THE BEE
- TAMING THE BICYCLE
- 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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