Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
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About This Book
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, published for the Classics Club. "This book is a choice of The Classics Club Selection Committee: Pearl S. Buck, John Kieran, William Lyon Phelps, Hendrik Willem van Loon"Inludes nine illustrations, which are facsimiles taken from books and manuscripts in the Mason Franklin Collection at the Yale University library.Contains an article on the latter part of Franklin's life (1760-1790) to supplement the biography written by Franklin himself.
Chapters (34)
- FRANKLIN ARMS
- FRANKLIN SEAL
- A U T O B I O G R A P H Y OF
- B E N J A M I N F R A N K L I N
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- The Story of the Autobiography
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- I ANCESTRY AND EARLY YOUTH IN BOSTON
- II BEGINNING LIFE AS A PRINTER
- III ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA
- IV FIRST VISIT TO BOSTON
- V EARLY FRIENDS IN PHILADELPHIA
- VI FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
- VII BEGINNING BUSINESS IN PHILADELPHIA
- VIII BUSINESS SUCCESS AND FIRST PUBLIC SERVICE
- IX PLAN FOR ATTAINING MORAL PERFECTION
- X POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
- XI INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
- XII DEFENSE OF THE PROVINCE
- XIII
- XIV ALBANY PLAN OF UNION
- XV QUARRELS WITH THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNORS
- XVI BRADDOCK'S EXPEDITION
- XVII FRANKLIN'S DEFENSE OF THE FRONTIER
- XVIII SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
- XIX AGENT OF PENNSYLVANIA IN LONDON
- APPENDIX
- ELECTRICAL KITE
- THE WAY TO WEALTH
- THE WHISTLE
- A LETTER TO SAMUEL MATHER
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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