The Autobiography and Other WritingsPenguin, 29 thg 4, 2003 - 272 trang Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. 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. 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. |
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Introduction | vii |
Chronology | xxi |
Suggestions for Further Reading | xxiii |
Note on the Texts | xxv |
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN | 1 |
Franklins Outline of the Autobiography | 173 |
ESSAYS AND LETTERS | 177 |
A Receipt to make a NewEngland Funeral Elegy 1722 | 179 |
The Kite Experiment | 191 |
The Way to Wealth 1757 | 193 |
An Edict by the King of Prussia 1773 | 203 |
From The Morals of Chess 1779 | 208 |
The Elysian Fields 1780 | 211 |
Information to Those who Would Remove to America 1782 | 214 |
An Address to the Public From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in B... | 219 |
A Miscellany of Franklins Opinions | 222 |
Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress 1745 | 184 |
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker 1747 | 186 |
How to secure Houses c from Lightning | 190 |
Notes | 235 |
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