The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
- Length
- 30 mornings, about 2,100 words a reading
About the book
Benjamin Franklin wrote this account of his own life in stages over almost twenty years and never finished it. He began it in 1771, while staying at Twyford in England, as a letter to his son. That first part covers his family, his boyhood in Boston and his early years as a printer, and stops about 1730. The Revolution then interrupted the work. Two letters from friends urging him to go on are printed in the book. He resumed at Passy, near Paris, in 1784, and again at home in Philadelphia in 1788.
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