The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
(2006)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2006
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (360 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982402532 MWT10078556, 1982402539 10078556
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Michael Edwards
Among other things, Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and, not least, a writer. Franklin's autobiography captures the essence of his spirit. In it we can see him as a product of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift, and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, "Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?" and he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm that have made this possibly the most famous of all autobiographies
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