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Books : The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)In association with Amazon.com Amazon.com's Price: $2.50 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973.3092 EAN: 9780486290737 ISBN: 0486290735 Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: June 07, 1996 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Sales Rank: 17699 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: One of the most popular works of American literature, this charming self-portrait has been translated into nearly every language. It covers Franklin's life up to his prewar stay in London as representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, including his boyhood years, work as a printer, experiments with electricity, political career, much more. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - an important work - should be read by all young menI have read this book myself at least twice. This book was purchased as a graduation present for a nephew. I wish someone had made me read this book at the age of 13. Franklin is quite the character. There are a lot of controversies surrounding his life, but for the purpose of instruction, I prefer to quit the debating society. This fellow is the first native born genius of record produced in this country. He may have painted a rosy picture of his life, but any of us would in an autobiography. If ... Read More Rating:  - Non-FictionThis says Norton Critical Edition, so, of course, designed for academic study. A man that of course did a whole pile of stuff and came up with a whole pile more. Entertaining at times, and lecturing at others, as you might expect from someone that had been in a privileged position. Rating: - Franklin's informal account of his remarkable lifeIn many ways, this is, to someone coming to it for the first time, a very surprising book. For one thing, it is amazingly incomplete. Franklin is, of course, one of the most famous Americans who ever lived, and his accomplishments in a wide array of endeavors are a part of American lore and popular history. A great deal of this lore and many of his accomplishments are missing from this account of his life. He never finished the autobiography, earlier in his life because he was too busy with what he ... Read More Rating: - shallow account of a great life.no doubt about it: ben franklin was a bright fellow. brigher than me, for instance. his autobiography, however, and despite what people on amazon are saying, is a shallow piece of fluff. nothing is touched in depth as he skims from one episode to the next like he is racing to finish an unimportant task. his wife? his family? forget them. all people in his life, in fact, seem deserving of no deep consideration to mr franklin. at times he brags about himself under the guise of modesty, and it is both ... Read More Rating:  - You've Got to Love Ben!As everyone else has noted, Ben was a brilliant man and an entertaining writer. This is classic American literature, particularly in how it shows a "character" striving to rise up and better himself because that is the promise of the American Dream. I docked Ben one star because the unfinished ending is not satisfying to someone who comes across this book for the first time. Just so you know, if you get lost during the third part, Ben is discussing the French Indian War. Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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