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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Franklin, Benjamin

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"Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin is an unfinished memoir written between 1771 and 1790. Franklin recounts his journey from a young apprentice fleeing Boston to becoming a successful printer and civic leader in Philadelphia. The work famously details his "Project of arriving at moral Perfection" through thirteen virtues, revealing his struggles and philosophies. Written across four parts over nearly two decades, this influential autobiography ends when Franklin was 52, leaving three decades of his remarkable life unrecorded. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Reading ease score: 59.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
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Subjects (7)
  • Harvard Classics
  • Category: American Literature
  • Category: Biographies
  • Category: History - American
  • E300
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
  • Statesmen -- United States -- Biography

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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader

Franklin, Benjamin