One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, author, inventor, scientist and diplomat. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its chief signers. Franklin made important contributions to science, especially in the understanding of electricity, and is remembered for the wit, wisdom and the supreme elegance of his prose technique. This eBook presents Franklin’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* 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

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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

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