What Is Man? de Mark Twain

What Is Man?

Mark Twain

1stworld Library

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.] Old Man. What are the materials of which a steam-engine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No - in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly deposited in the ores?

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Paperback (8)

52^.46 lei 3-5 săpt.

Free Patriot Press – 30 iun 2010

52^.46 lei 3-5 săpt.

Book Tree – 31 mar 2007

68^.55 lei 3-5 săpt.

+35^.23 lei 6-12 zile

Europäischer Hochschulverlag – 8 mai 2010

270^.40 lei 3-5 săpt.

DOGMA Verlag – 22 dec 2012

270^.84 lei 3-5 săpt.

OMNI Publishing – 20 dec 2019

102^.84 lei 6-8 săpt.

1st World Library –

127^.60 lei 6-8 săpt.

OMNI Publishing – 11 iul 2019

139^.91 lei 6-8 săpt.

Leseklassiker – 17 ian 2013

186^.31 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (2)

130^.82 lei 6-8 săpt.

OMNI Publishing – 22 dec 2019

130^.82 lei 6-8 săpt.

1st World Library –

215^.17 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.

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Mark Twain's skeptical assessment of free will, and determinism, religious belief, and the nature of humanity. He put off publishing it for 25 years, and then released it anonymously in a limited edition of 250 copies. The book takes the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic, who debate such issues as whether personal merit is meaningless given how our environment shapes who we are, and whether man has any impulse other than pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain.