What Is Man? de Mark Twain

What Is Man?: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects

Mark Twain

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2010

"What Is Man?," first published by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) in 1906, is a dialog between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.

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Express

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 4-10 zile

Europäischer Hochschulverlag – 8 mai 2010

270^.40 lei 3-5 săpt.

DOGMA Verlag – 22 dec 2012

272^.77 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.

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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.

Notă biografică

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, 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." Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After an apprenticeship with a printer, Twain worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it", too. He died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."