The Portable Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0143039547

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The Portable Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin’s temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781440626920

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The Portable Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin’s temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780553904987

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The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

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.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596985759

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The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Author : Mark Shulman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781645173700

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Benjamin Franklin: Inventor of the Nation! by Mark Shulman Pdf

The story of America’s foremost inventor and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, in graphic novel format. Benjamin Franklin has been called one of the most accomplished and influential Americans in history, and his role in shaping the United States has had a lasting impact that is still felt today. From his birth in Boston in 1706 to his days as a printer, inventor, and politician, Benjamin Franklin: Inventor of the Nation! tells the story of “the First American” in an accessible graphic novel format. Franklin’s research into topics as varied as electricity, meteorology, demography, and oceanography were as wide-ranging and important as his travels, which took him across the globe as a diplomat for the newly founded United States toward the end of the 18th century.

Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520248298

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Draw the Lightning Down by Michael Brian Schiffer Pdf

Annotation A lively and entertaining study of early electrical technology, this book brings to life the technologies and inventors--most notably Benjamin Franklin--who forged the way for our modern electrical world.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Google Auto-narrated Demo
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. This work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. This title is based on the Harvard Classics edition.

Author : B. Franklin
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : 9785874374112

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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by B. Franklin Pdf

With introduction, notes, and a supplementary sketch, concuding the story of Franklin's life, presented mainly in his own words.

Author : Benjamin Franklin,Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014590111

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The Works of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin,Jared Sparks Pdf

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001598108

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020422921

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Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368240585

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9783985510061

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin illustrated by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin illustrated Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three's narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1686180438

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs

Author : Douglas Anderson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421406138

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The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin by Douglas Anderson Pdf

Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir—a model of the genre—in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson’s study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative and radical as the inventions and political thought for which he is renowned. Franklin never completed his autobiography, choosing instead to immerse his reader in the formal and textual atmosphere of a deliberately “unfinished” life. Taking this decision on Franklin’s part as a starting point, Anderson treats the memoir as a subtle and rewarding reading lesson, independent of the famous life that it dramatizes but closely linked to the work of predecessors and successors like John Bunyan and Alexis de Tocqueville, whose books help illuminate Franklin’s complex imagination. Anderson shows that Franklin’s incomplete story exploits the disorderly and disruptive state of a lived life, as opposed to striving for the meticulous finish of standard memoirs, biographies, and histories. In presenting Franklin’s autobiography as an exemplary formal experiment in an era that its author once called the Age of Experiments, The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin veers away from the familiar practices of traditional biographers, viewing history through the lens of literary imagination rather than the other way around. Anderson’s carefully considered work makes a persuasive case for revisiting this celebrated book with a keener appreciation for the subtlety and beauty of Franklin’s performance.