What Is Man? and Other Essays

Mark Twain

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 249 pages

What Is Man? and Other Essays is a collection of Mark Twain's essays and sketches. Its title piece is a dialogue between an Old Man and a Young Man about whether people are machines and whether personal merit is real. The other pieces range from history and language to Shakespeare, travel, and tobacco, showing Twain's skeptical wit and humane curiosity.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.