What Is Man?

Mark Twain

• Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9783849644147
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Saggi letterari

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 JeanThe Turning-Point Of My LifeHow To Make History Dates StickThe Memorable AssassinationA Scrap Of Curious HistorySwitzerland, The Cradle Of LibertyAt The Shrine Of St. WagnerWilliam Dean HowellsEnglish As She Is TaughtA Simplified AlphabetAs Concerns Interpreting The DeityConcerning TobaccoThe BeeTaming The BicycleIs Shakespeare Dead?

What Is Man?

And Other Essays

Mark Twain

Contents:

Mark Twain – A Biographical Primer

What Is Man?

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

The Death Of Jean

The Turning-Point Of My Life

I

II

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?

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

What Is Man?, M. Twain

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Mark Twain – A Biographical Primer

Mark Twain was the nom de plume of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), an American author who was born on the 30th of November 1835, at Florida, Missouri. His father was a country merchant from Tennessee, who moved soon after his son's birth to Hannibal, Missouri, a little town on the Mississippi. When the boy was only twelve his father died, and thereafter he had to get his education as best he could. Of actual schooling he had little. He learned how to set type, and as a journeyman printer he wandered widely, going even as far east as New York. At seventeen he went back to the Mississippi, determined to become a pilot on a river-steamboat. In his Life on the Mississippi he has recorded graphically his experiences while “learning the river.” But in 1861 the war broke out, and the pilot's occupation was gone. After a brief period of uncertainty the young man started West with his brother, who had been appointed lieutenant-governor of Nevada. He went to the mines for a season, and there he began to write in the local newspapers, adopting the pen name of “Mark Twain,” from a call used in taking soundings on the Mississippi steamboats. He drifted in time to San Francisco, and it was a newspaper of that city which in 1867 supplied the money for him to join a party going on a chartered steamboat to the Mediterranean ports. The letters which he wrote during this voyage were gathered in 1869 into a volume, The Innocents Abroad, and the book immediately won a wide and enduring popularity. This popularity was of service to him when he appeared on the platform with a lecture or rather with an apparently informal talk, rich in admirably delivered anecdote. He edited a daily newspaper in Buffalo for a few months, and in 1870 he married Miss Olivia L. Langdon (d. 1904), removing a year later to Hartford, where he established his home. Roughing It was published in 1872, and in 1874 he collaborated with Charles Dudley Warner in The Gilded Age, from which he made a play, acted many hundred times with John T. Raymond as “Colonel Sellers.” In 1875 he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the sequel to which, Huckleberry Finn, did not appear until 1884. The result of a second visit to Europe was humorously recorded in A Tramp Abroad (1880), followed in 1882 by a more or less historical romance, The Prince and the Pauper; and a year later came Life on the Mississippi. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the next of his books, was published (in 1884) by a New York firm in which the author was chief partner. This firm prospered for a while, and issued in 1889 Mark Twain's own comic romance, A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, and in 1892 a less successful novel, The American Claimant. But after a severe struggle the publishing house failed, leaving the author charged with its very heavy debts. After this disaster he issued a third Mississippi Valley novel, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, in 1894, and in 1896 another historical romance, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, wherein the maid is treated with the utmost sympathy and reverence. He went on a tour round the world, partly to make money by lecturing and partly to get material for another book of travels, published in 1897, and called in America Follo...

Table of contents

• Mark Twain – A Biographical Primer
• What Is Man?
• 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?