Autobiography - Brossura

Franklin, Benjamin

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ISBN 10: 0192827332 ISBN 13: 9780192827333

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1993

Riassunto

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire 18th century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing "Poor Richard's Almanack" to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime he knew prominence not only in America but in Britain and France as well. 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 six 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 a 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.

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0192827332
• ISBN 13: 9780192827333
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 390