This volume includes the most important essays by American novelist and writer Mark Twain. Headlined by «What Is Man?», his fictional dialogue regarding the nature of man, there are also the followings works included:

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 Bicycle
Is Shakespeare Dead?