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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and a sketch of Franklin's life from the point where the autobiography ends

Benjamin Franklin · 1896 · Scanned text · Free in the US

78,216 words · about 5 h 29 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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About this book

Language
English
Published
1896
Length
78,216 words · about 5 h 29 min
Sections
7 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (7)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. II 1,27,4 about 1 min
  3. Contents about 1 h 29 min
  4. IV. Retukn To Philadelphia about 55 min
  5. VI. Self-education about 2 h 40 min
  6. Appendix about 5 min
  7. Index about 17 min

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Front matter

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* Masterpieces of American Literature (469 pages, ;^i.oo, net) contains material drawn principally from the Riverside Literature Series. It was published at the request of the Boston School Committee for the use of the eiachth-grade pupils of Boston.

After a painting by Duplessis in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

THE AUTOBIOGKAPHY

AND A SKETCH OF FRANKLIN'S LIFE FROM THE

POINT WHERE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY ENDS

DRAWN CHIEFLY FROM HIS LETTERS

WITH NOTES AND A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORICAL TABLE

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

Boston : 4 Park Street ; New York : ll East Seventeentli Street Chicago : 158 Adams Street

Copyright, 1886 and 1896, By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. 0. Houghton & Company.

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