Track | Chapter | Length |
1 | 00-Introduction | 19:00 |
2 | 01-Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston | 25:32 |
3 | 02-Beginning Life as a Printer | 23:48 |
4 | 03-Arrival in Philadelphia | 16:32 |
5 | 04-First Visit to Boston | 17:45 |
6 | 05-Early Friends in Philadelphia | 9:55 |
7 | 06-First Visit to London | 29:28 |
8 | 07-Beginning Business in Philadelphia | 34:01 |
9 | 08-Business Success and First Public Service | 27:33 |
10 | 09-Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection | 31:22 |
11 | 10-Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Activities | 21:17 |
12 | 11-Interest in Public Affairs | 17:13 |
13 | 12-Defense of the Province | 21:11 |
14 | 13-Public Services and Duties | 32:11 |
15 | 14-Albany Plan of Union | 5:11 |
16 | 15-Quarrels with the Proprietary | 7:42 |
17 | 16-Braddock's Expedition | 26:25 |
18 | 17-Franklin's Defense of the Frontier | 18:52 |
19 | 18-Scientific Experiments | 9:15 |
20 | 19-Agent of Pennsylvania in London | 35:02 |
21 | 20-Appendix | 16:01 |
Notes
Running time: 7 hours and 25 minutes
Read by: Gary Gilberd
Artwork
Cover: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin 1778 by Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis (1725–1802)
DVD Inset: Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (ca. 1816) by Benjamin West (1738–1820)
DVD Insert background image: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin 1767 by David Martin (1737–1797)
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is Franklin’s own record of his life, written between 1771 and 1790 and incomplete and unpublished at the time of his death. He referred to it as a memoir and divided it into four parts. Fittingly, it was first published in France in a translation of the first part only from an early unrevised manuscript. It languished until his grandson William Temple Franklin published the first three parts in London in 1818, omitting part four and taking stylistic liberties with the text. The first reliable edition with the text from the complete original manuscript was published by John Bigelow in 1868 and has been further improved by scholars in the 20th century. Franklins legacy of “firsts” continues to our time: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was the first full-length recorded book in history, recorded by actor Micheal Rye and released in 1969.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936516 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923209 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Benjamin Franklin (1705 - 1790) Edited by Frank Woodworth Pine |
Year | 1818 |
Recording | |
Read by | Gary Gilberd |
Length | 7 hours 25 minutes (MP3 CD) 7 hours 27 minutes (MP3 download) |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Author: Benjamin Franklin
- Product Code: DB-1071
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