Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Edited by Frank Woodward Pine
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.
Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three's narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break.
In the "Introduction" of the 1916 publication of the Autobiography, editor F. W. Pine wrote that Franklin's biography provided the "most remarkable of all the remarkable histories of our self-made men" with Franklin as the greatest exemplar.
Excerpted from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin on Wikipedia.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| Country | United States |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Book cover | - |
| Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
| Scans | Google-digitized |
| Audio | Librivox | Internet Archive Reader: Gary Gilberd 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 |
| Read online | Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |