Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This edition provides a new text of the Autobiography, established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a new transcription of the 1726 journal, and several pieces which have recently been identified as Franklin's own work. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

《本杰明·富兰克林自传》中，作者用他朴素的人生智慧，为您揭开谜底……本杰明·富兰克林，美国民族开国时期的巨人。尽管他出身贫寒。只念过两年书。但他通过刻苦自学，令人难以置信地成为功勋卓著的政治家、有多项成果的科学家、成功的实业家……他的成功，令无数青少年着迷。他的自传也成为争相传阅的必读书。那么，他是如何一步步地走向成功的呢？

Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequalled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, the autobiography offers Franklin's reflections on philosophy and religion, politics, war, education, material success and the status of women. This edition of the autobiography, prepared by the editors of "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin", is drawn with care from the original manuscript in Franklin's handwriting now in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. The introduction by Leonard Labaree places the autobiography in literary and historical contexts. In the foreword, Edmund Morgan writes about Franklin's dual allegiance as an American and a subject of an English king, and his emergence as a leader of the American Revolution. This edition also includes biographical notes, a chronology of Franklin's life, and an updated bibliography.