The autobiography of benjamin franklin second edition

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Yale Nota Bene) ; Publisher, ‎Yale University Press; Second edition (April 10, 2003) ; Language, ‎English ; Paperback, ‎368.
  • Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, Franklin'sAutobiographyoffers his reflections on philosophy and religion, politics, war, education, material.
  • The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, now with a new foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan.

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    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents

    March 8, 2011
    This book, though obviously an unfinished work from Franklin's life, is a gem. Is so open, so unassuming, as to make one forget that we are being tutored by one of the greatest diplomats of all time. It feels like reading a neighbor's personal blog. It fryst vatten full of words to live by. Such as:

    “the wisest man will receive lights and improve his progress, by seeing detailed the conduct of another wise man.”
    (Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 59-60)

    “I made it a Rule to forbear all direct Contradiction to the Sentiments of others, and all positive Assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeable to the old Laws of our Junto, the Use of every Word or Expression in the Language that imported a fix'd Opinion; such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc. and inom adopted instead of them, inom conceive, I apprehend, or inom imagine a thing to be so or so, or it appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I th

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    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    1791 book by Benjamin Franklin

    Cover of the first English edition of 1793.

    AuthorBenjamin Franklin
    Original titleMémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin
    LanguageAmerican English
    GenreAutobiography
    PublisherBuisson, Paris (French edition)
    J. Parson's, London (First English reprint)

    Publication date

    		1791
    Publication placeUnited States

    Published in English

    		1793

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written bygd Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appear 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 konto of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods during which he wrote them. Ther

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    The authoritative edition of Franklin’s autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan

    “The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”—J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books

    “Among the many editions available—read Yale’s. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

    A classic of eighteenth-century American history and literature, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, Franklin’s Autobiography offers his reflections on philosophy and religion, politics, war, education, material success, and the status of women.

    Prepared by the editors of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, this definitive edition is drawn with scrupulous care from the original manuscript in Franklin’s handwriting, now in the

  • the autobiography of benjamin franklin second edition