The Autobiography and Other WritingsPenguin, 07.01.1986 - 272 Seiten This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin’s most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman. Here are selections from Franklin’s newspaper articles, from the sage wisdom of Poor Richard’s Almanac, from his entertaining letters, from his scientific essays, from his political and revolutionary writings, plus a generous sampling of his famous aphorisms, poems, and humor. And, most important, here is a newly edited text of one of the most vital and important works of American literature, the Autobiography. As fascinating and as relevant as ever, this timeless collection of writings reveals an extraordinary man whose mind was always curious, always questioning, and who forever remained dedicated to the principles of truth and liberty. |
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... wrote at length or in passing on agriculture, chess, military strategy, literary style, silkworms, pickled sturgeon, ice boats, mastodon teeth, garters, and the balance of trade. He drew an influential political cartoon. He may have ...
... wrote at length or in passing on agriculture, chess, military strategy, literary style, silkworms, pickled sturgeon, ice boats, mastodon teeth, garters, and the balance of trade. He drew an influential political cartoon. He may have ...
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... wrote, “but a Skeleton covered with a Skin.” Never completed, his book breaks off before the time of the American Revolution, previous, that is, to his major political feats. Given also his customary pose of authorial modesty, readers ...
... wrote, “but a Skeleton covered with a Skin.” Never completed, his book breaks off before the time of the American Revolution, previous, that is, to his major political feats. Given also his customary pose of authorial modesty, readers ...
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... grew heavy and suffered from gout as a result of his love of rich food and wine; indeed his writings teem with food imagery. The straightforward narrator notwithstanding, the sly author wrote his first published essay in the guise of.
... grew heavy and suffered from gout as a result of his love of rich food and wine; indeed his writings teem with food imagery. The straightforward narrator notwithstanding, the sly author wrote his first published essay in the guise of.
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Benjamin Franklin. author wrote his first published essay in the guise of a middle-aged widow and ran away soon after to Philadelphia posing as one “that had got a naughty Girl with Child.” Later adopting some forty different pseudonyms ...
Benjamin Franklin. author wrote his first published essay in the guise of a middle-aged widow and ran away soon after to Philadelphia posing as one “that had got a naughty Girl with Child.” Later adopting some forty different pseudonyms ...
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... wrote to a friend at the time, “wearing my thin grey straight Hair, that peeps out under my only Coiffure, a fine Fur Cap, which comes down my Forehead almost to my Spectacles. Think how this must appear among the Powder'd Heads of ...
... wrote to a friend at the time, “wearing my thin grey straight Hair, that peeps out under my only Coiffure, a fine Fur Cap, which comes down my Forehead almost to my Spectacles. Think how this must appear among the Powder'd Heads of ...
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