Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Franklin’s life and works
* All the major works, with the original hyperlinked footnotes
* Texts based on the Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme 1806 edition of Franklin’s works
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare letters and treatises
* Includes Franklin’s seminal autobiography
* Special criticism section, with 14 essays evaluating Franklin’s contribution to literature, science, politics and philosophy
* Features six biographies – discover Franklin’s incredible life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Works
Letters and Papers on Electricity
Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects
Papers on Subjects of General Politics
Papers on American Subjects before the Revolutionary Troubles
Papers on American Subjects during the Revolutionary Troubles
Papers, Descriptive of America, or Relating to that Country, Written Subsequent to the Revolution
Papers on Moral Subjects and the Economy of Life
The Autobiography
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1793)
The Criticism
Anecdotes of Doctor Franklin (1818) by Thomas Jefferson
The Late Benjamin Franklin (1870) by Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin (1884) by Osgood E. Fuller
Benjamin Franklin (1884) by Carl Schurz
Benjamin Franklin (1885) by William Garnett
Benjamin Franklin (1888) by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Benjamin Franklin (1893) by Philip Gengembre Hubert
Benjamin Franklin (1900) by Paul Elmer More
Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France (1901) by Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Franklin (1906) by Charles William Eliot
Benjamin Franklin (1916) by Hamilton W. Mabie
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed (1917) by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Science and the Struggle for Liberty: Benjamin Franklin (1917) by Walter Libby
Benjamin Franklin (1923) by D. H. Lawrence
The Biographies
The Life of Benjamin Franklin (1829) by Mason Locke Weems
Benjamin Franklin (1839) by L. Carroll Judson
Benjamin Franklin (1876) by John S. C. Abbott
Franklin: A Sketch (1879) by John Bigelow
The True Benjamin Franklin (1898) by Sydney George Fisher
Benjamin Franklin (1911) by Richard Webster
