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of Benjamin Franklin is Franklin’s own record of his life, written between 1771 and 1790 and incomplete and unpublished at the time of his death.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