Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin - Libros -  - 9798574374870 - 16 de diciembre de 2020
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Book Excerpt: ... Franklin's longest work, and yet it is only a fragment. The first part, written as a letter to his son, William Franklin, was not intended for publication; and the composition is more informal and the narrative more personal than in the second part, from 1730 on, which was written with a view to publication. The entire manuscript shows little evidence of revision. In fact, the expression is so homely and natural that his grandson, William Temple Franklin, in editing the work changed some of the phrases because he thought them inelegant and vulgar. Franklin began the story of his life while on a visit to his friend, Bishop Shipley, at Twyford, in Hampshire, southern England, in 1771. He took the manuscript, completed to 1731, with him when he returned to Philadelphia in 1775. It was left there with his other papers when he went to France in the following year, and disappeared during the confusion incident to the Revolution. Twenty-three pages of closely written manuscript fell into the hands of Abel Jam...

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Publicado 16 de diciembre de 2020
ISBN13 9798574374870
Páginas 164
Dimensiones 127 × 203 × 9 mm   ·   167 g
Lengua Inglés  

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