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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
November 1, 1996
Pages
140
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780195101546
ISBN-10
0195101545
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 9 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$22.00
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Offers a debate on the topics of free will, determinism, faith, and human nature
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: What Is Man? is 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 man is a machine or a free actor, 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. As readers "we listen attentively, leaning forward in our chairs," Charles Johnson writes in his introduction, weighing on our own such statements as the Old Man's claim that "No man ever originates anything.... Men observe and combine, that is all. So does a rat." Linda Wagner-Martin, in the afterword, sees the ideas expressed in this volume as "a thread that runs through even the lightest of Mark Twain's fiction, the calmest of his memoirs; and as the questioning hook that may provide a rationale for his becoming a writer in the first place."
Editions
Hardcover
from 1st World Library (July 30, 2005); titled "What Is Man"
9781421807812 | details & prices | 388 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $31.95
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About: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks.
from Indypublish.Com (January 1, 2003); titled "What Is Man"
9781404341029 | details & prices | 260 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $25.99
About: Collection of essays on various topics by the famous creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
About: Collection of essays on various topics by the famous creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
With Shelley Fisher Fishkin (other contributor) |
from Oxford Univ Pr (June 1, 1997); titled "What Is Man"
9780195114218 | details & prices | 6.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $28.00
The price comparison is for this edition
With Charles Johnson (other contributor) |
from Oxford Univ Pr (November 1, 1996)
9780195101546 | details & prices | 140 pages | 6.50 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $22.00
About: Offers a debate on the topics of free will, determinism, faith, and human nature
About: Offers a debate on the topics of free will, determinism, faith, and human nature
Paperback
With Mark Twain |
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 20, 2015)
9781522807148 | details & prices | 264 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.60 in. | List price $16.99
With Mark Twain |
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 12, 2014)
9781500496968 | details & prices | 302 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $9.99
About: This classic volume is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain and inckudes the following: What Is Man?
About: This classic volume is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain and inckudes the following: What Is Man?
With Mark Twain |
from Gardners Books (January 17, 2013)
9783955630232 | details & prices | 288 pages | List price $42.25
With Mark Twain |
from Gardners Books (December 22, 2012)
9783955077792 | details & prices | 288 pages | List price $45.25
About: Collection of essays on various topics by the famous creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
About: Collection of essays on various topics by the famous creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
With Mark Twain |
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 12, 2010)
With Mark Twain |
from Europ Fischer Hochschulverlag (May 9, 2010)
9783867412919 | details & prices | 284 pages | List price $39.90
About: Collection of essays on various topics by the famous creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
About: Collection of essays on various topics by the famous creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
from Book Tree (April 30, 2007)
9781585093007 | details & prices | 108 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.34 lbs | List price $12.95
About: This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book.
About: This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book.
from 1st World Library (September 30, 2004); titled "What Is Man"
9781595403315 | details & prices | 388 pages | List price $15.95
About: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks.
About: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks.
from Indypublish.Com (January 1, 2003); titled "What Is Man"
9781404341036 | details & prices | 260 pages | List price $20.99
About: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks.
About: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks.
from Green Integer Books (March 1, 2000)
9781892295156 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $10.95
About: Mark Twain's long dialogue about the nature of mankind.
About: Mark Twain's long dialogue about the nature of mankind.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Carl Reiner (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from New Millenium Audio (June 1, 2001)
9781931056885 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.50 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Carl Reiner, a hilarious entertainer for over 40 years, and creator of the Dick Van Dyke show, reads Mark Twain's What is Man?
About: Carl Reiner, a hilarious entertainer for over 40 years, and creator of the Dick Van Dyke show, reads Mark Twain's What is Man?
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