What Is Man? and Other Essays
Mark Twain
Audio CD
(Babblebooks, Dec. 31, 2012)
The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Alfred von Lecteur. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 10.7 hours (slow), 9.8 hours (medium), 8.9 hours (fast). This collection of short essays covers a wide range of Twain's interests: the serious, the political and the ironically humorous. In the title essay, first published in 1906, a young man and an old man debate the question of free will and determinism. Contents: 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 Bicycles Is Shakespeare Dead?