Mark Twain 
What Is Man? and Other Essays (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) [EPUB ebook] 

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What Is Man? and Other Essays showcases Twain at his most insightful and provocative. Brimming with philosophical candor and sparkling with humor, it features ‚What Is Man?, ‚ a conversation that explores free will and morality, and includes poignant autobiographical accounts (‚The Death of Jean, ‚ ‚The Turning Point in My Life‘), hilarious personal narratives (‚Taming the Bicycle, ‚ ‚At the Shrine of St. Wagner‘), along with journalism, criticism, and satirical essays. This Warbler Classics edition faithfully reproduces thirty-four playful drawings by Mark Twain that illustrate ‚How to Make History Dates Stick, ‚ ‚A Simplified Alphabet, ‚ and ‚As Concerns Interpreting the Deity.‘ Also included is ‚Mark Twain’s Americanism‘ by H. L. Mencken and an extensive biographical timeline of Twain’s life and work. Expansive, thoughtful, irreverent, and enormously entertaining, What Is Man? and Other Essays is essential reading for Twain enthusiasts and lovers of American literature.

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Contents

What Is Man?

The Death of Jean

The Turning Point in 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?

Mark Twain’s Americanism by H. L. Mencken

Biographical Timeline

Über den Autor

H. L. MENCKEN (1880-1956) was a journalist, critic, and satirist whose writings have had an enormous influence on American literature and public life.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 234 ● ISBN 9781962572736 ● Dateigröße 5.2 MB ● Herausgeber Albert Bigelow Paine ● Verlag Warbler Classics ● Erscheinungsjahr 2024 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 9483776 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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