Description:
Expansive, thoughtful, irreverent, and entertaining, What Is Man? and Other Essays is essential reading for Twain enthusiasts and lovers of American literature. Includes an essay by H. L. Mencken and a biographical timeline.
Brief description: MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, arguably the greatest humorist the United States has ever produced and the author of travel narratives and novels that have shaped American literature.