What Is Man? and Other Essays: Includes The Death of Jean, The Turning-point of My Life, How To Make History Dates Stick, The Memorable Assassination, On Girls and More.

by Mark Twain

Overview

Table of Contents:

What Is Man?
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
English As She Is Taught
On Girls
A Simplified Alphabet
Concerning Tobacco
The Bee
Taming The Bicycle

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605012483
Publisher:	MobileReference
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Mobi Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	394 KB

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut