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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism / edited by J.A. Leo Lemay and P.M. Zall.
- Title
- Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism / edited by J.A. Leo Lemay and P.M. Zall.
- Author
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Publication
- New York : Norton, c1986.
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| Text | Request in advance | E302.6.F7 A2 1986a | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 391 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Originally written as a guide for his son, Benjamin Franklin discusses his life, accomplishments, and ideas. The most popular autobiography ever written is here presented for the first time directly from the manuscripts, rather than perpatuating the errors of previous editions. Background materials include opinions ranging from Keats and Poe to Twain and D.H. Lawrence.
- Series Statement
- A Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Autobiography
- A Norton critical edition.
- Alternative Title
- Autobiography
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 361-374.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Note on the text -- The text of the Autobiography -- Excerpts from Franklin's letters mentioning the Autobiography -- "Authentic memoir of Dr. Franklin" -- Anecdotes recorded by John Jay -- Excerpts from Franklin's writings on wealth, the art of virtue, and perfection -- Criticism. Contemporary opinions -- Nineteenth-century opinions -- Twentieth-century opinions -- Bibliography. Key editions of Franklin's Autobiography -- A selective, annotated bibliography of twentieth-century criticism.
- ISBN
- 0393952940 (pbk.)
- 0393017370
- LCCN
- ^^^84003999^
- OCLC
- 10457952
- SCSB-12166979
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library