What is Man? and Other Essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

What is Man? and Other Essays, credited to Mark Twain, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of What is Man? and Other Essays, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. "What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue 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. This collection of short stories covers a wide range of Twain's interests: the serious, the political and the ironically humorous. (Summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman)

Recording facts

• Recording title: What is Man? and Other Essays
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 10:37:39

Catalogue topics

• mark twain
• essays
• what is man

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - What Is Man? Section 1 — 21:26
2. 02 - What is Man? Section 2 — 29:12
3. 03 - What is Man? Section 3 — 20:23
4. 04 - What is Man? Section 4 — 34:16
5. 05 - What is Man? Section 5 — 21:22
6. 06 - What is Man? Section 6 — 43:46
7. 07 - What Is Man - Conclusion — 14:36
8. 08 - The Death of Jean — 28:59
9. 09 - The Turning Point of My Life — 23:03
10. 10 - How To Make History Dates Stick — 33:00
11. 11 - The Memorable Assassination — 27:05
12. 12 - A Scrap of Curious History — 18:02
13. 13 - Switzerland, The Cradle of Liberty — 26:03
14. 14 - At the Shrine of St. Wagner — 33:33
15. 15 - William Dean Howells — 22:02
16. 16 - English As She Is Taught — 31:06
17. 17 - A Simplified Alphabet — 11:52
18. 18 - As Concerns Interpreting the Deity — 17:37
19. 19 - Concerning Tobacco — 7:45
20. 20 - The Bee — 8:41
21. 21 - Taming the Bicycles — 20:14
22. 22 - Is Shakespeare Dead? Part 1-3 — 33:45
23. 23 - Is Shakespeare Dead? Part 4-7 — 37:33
24. 24 - Is Shakespeare Dead? Part 8-9 — 39:52

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