The Autobiography and Other Writings

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451469887
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father. Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country’s survival. Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments. Additional writings from Benjamin Franklin’s wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who became a legend in his own time. Edited by L. Jesse Lemich With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson and an Afterword by Carla Mulford

Autobiography and Other Writings

Author: Ana de San Bartolomé
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226143732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Ana de San Bartolomé (1549–1626), a contemporary and close associate of St. Teresa of Ávila, typifies the curious blend of religious activism and spiritual forcefulness that characterized the first generation of Discalced, or reformed Carmelites. Known for their austerity and ethics, their convents quickly spread throughout Spain and, under Ana’s guidance, also to France and the Low Countries. Constantly embroiled in disputes with her male superiors, Ana quickly became the most vocal and visible of these mystical women and the most fearless of the guardians of the Carmelite Constitution, especially after Teresa’s death. Her autobiography, clearly inseparable from her religious vocation, expresses the tensions and conflicts that often accompanied the lives of women whose relationship to the divine endowed them with an authority at odds with the temporary powers of church and state. Last translated into English in 1916, Ana’s writings give modern readers fascinating insights into the nature of monastic life during the highly charged religious and political climate of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Spain.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623957915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of America's most famous memoirs. In this text, Ben Franklin shares his life story and details his attempts to build a life of good habits and virtues. His plan for self-improvement was one of the first "self help" books and his role as a founder of the United States is given a personal perspective. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Mark Skousen
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 0895260336
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
A lifelong scholar of Benjamin Franklin's life completes the unfinished "Autobiography" with information on Franklin's attitudes about such topics as the Constitutional Convention, slavery, and Thomas Jefferson.

Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings (LOA #37b)

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 840

Book Description
Collects Benjamin Franklin's best-known writings, both personal and public, arranged by period and place, and includes scholarly notes.

An Autobiography

Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019166278X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of the strangest - autobiographies ever written. After a miserable childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turned his life around at the age of twenty-six. By 1860 the 'hobbledehoy' had become both a senior civil servant and a best-selling novelist. He worked for the Post Office for many years and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament. Best-known for the two series of novels grouped loosely around the clerical and political professions, the Barsetshire and Palliser series, in his Autobiography Trollope frankly describes his writing habits. His apparent preoccupation with contracts, deadlines, and earnings, and his account of the remorseless regularity with which he produced his daily quota of words, has divided opinion ever since. As the Introduction to this edition shows, Trollope selected and exaggerated to create his compelling narrative of initial failure and eventual success, and the inspiration that fuelled his creative imagination has too easily been overlooked. The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's record offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. This edition also includes a selection of his critical writings to show how subtle and complex his approach to literature really was.

The Portable Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626928
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 596

Book Description
It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin’s temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man

Author: James Weldon Johnson
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Safe Conduct

Author: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Experimental in its category, Boris Pasternak's first autobiography, originally published after the great success of his Dr. Zhivago.

An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

Author: Dionne Brand
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772125156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this...coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a real self. Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes; the ways that practices of reading and writing are shaped by those narrative structures; and the challenges of writing a narrative of Black life that attends to its own expression and its own consciousness.