The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
β Scribed by Franklin, Benjamin
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Year
- 1790
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781620114445
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β¦ Synopsis
"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man."
-- From the Introduction
Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.
Written initially to guide his son, Franklin's autobiography is a lively, spellbinding account of his unique and eventful life. Stylistically his best work, it has become a classic in world literature, one to inspire and delight readers everywhere.
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non-fiction; prose
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is one of the greatest autobiographies of all timeβbut it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three eventful years, serving as America's advocate in London, Pennsylvania's representative in the Cont