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What Is Man? And Other Essays (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook]

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Published in 1917, this collection contains some of Twain’s most notable essays. In the title essay, first published in 1906, a young man and an old man debate the question of free will and determinism. Other essays include ‘As Concerns Interpreting the Deity’ and the notorious ‘Is Shakespeare Dead?’

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Mark Twain (1835-1910), born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is said to be America’s greatest humorist. William Faulkner called him the father of American literature. Ernest Hemmingway added, “all modern American literature stems from one book by Mark Twain.” He was referring to
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 324 ● ISBN 9781411436435 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5862609 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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