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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography : an Authoritative Text Backgrounds Criticism (86 Edition)

by Benjamin Franklin

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ISBN10: 0393952940
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As such it deserves to be offered to twentieth-century readers in the most accurate form possible, and so it is, in this Norton Critical Edition, the first text to be edited directly from the manuscripts, rather than perpetuating the errors of previous editions. The text is fully annotated, and the reading is assisted by helpful footnotes, biographical sketches, and two maps. In Backgrounds, the editors collect Franklin's most important reflections on the Autobiography's purpose, some anecdotes, and a number of Franklin's statements on wealth, the art of virtue, and perfection. Materials in Criticism range from contemporary opinions-which reveal that readers were divided then as they are now about the art of the Autobiography-to essays written in the twentieth century. Nineteenth-century opinions include those of John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells, among others. The twentieth-century materials include D. H. Lawrence's celebrated essay, an excerpt from Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, and the perspectives of such recent critics as Charles L. Sanford, Robert Freeman Sayre, John William Ward, and David Devin.

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Franklin's Autobiography is the only enduring best-seller written in America before the nineteenth century, as well as the most popular autobiography ever written.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393952940
Editor:
May, J. A.
Editor:
Zall, Paul M.
Editor:
May, J. A.
Author:
Franklin, Benjamin
Author:
Zall, Paul M.
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Historical - U.S.
Subject:
United States - Revolutionary War
Subject:
Autobiography
Subject:
Franklin, benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject:
Statesmen
Subject:
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
Subject:
Franklin, Benjamin
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 361-374.
Series:
Norton Critical Edition
Series Volume:
no. 76
Publication Date:
January 1986
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
8.31x5.16x.70 in. .89 lbs.
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