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The Autobiography and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2003
by Franklin, Benjamin
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Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth A. Silverman
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- Title The Autobiography and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
- Author Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2003-04-29
- Bookseller's Inventory # 581V6C0002Y6_ns
- ISBN 9780142437605 / 0142437603
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.88 x 5.1 x 0.51 in (20.02 x 12.95 x 1.30 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1290
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Franklin, Benjamin, Statesmen - United States - Biography
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanack to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime he knew prominence not only in America but in Britain and France as well. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. Nearly sixty years separate the earliest writings from the latest, an interval during which Franklin was continually balancing between the puritan values of his upbringing and the modern American world to which his career served as prologue. This edition provides a new text of the Autobiography, established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a new transcription of the 1726 journal, and several pieces which have recently been identified as Franklin's own work.