Ben Franklin Autobiography and Other Writings

Benamin Franklin and Other Writings by Oxford World Classics. Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended over nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing "Poor Richard's Almanack" to signing the Declaration of Independence. 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. 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. Includes Introduction, Bibliography, Chronology and Explanatory Notes. 361 pages.