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The Autobiography and Other Writings

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780142437605

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Autobiography and Other Writings

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 volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. Nearly sixty years separate the earliest writings from the latest, an interval during which Franklin was continually balancing between the puritan values of his upbringing and the modern American world to which his career served as prologue. 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.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780142437605

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £7.99

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Richard Neville

Richard Neville was an Australian writer and commentator who first came to prominence as the editor of the counterculture magazine OZ. Having travelled the ‘pot trail’ throughout the 1960s and 70s, Neville was commissioned by Random House to write the story of con man and serial killer, Charles Sobhraj. The result, On the Trail of the Serpent was a global bestseller. His other books include Play Power, Hippie, Hippie, Shake, Out of My Mind and Amerika Pyscho. Neville died in 2016.

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