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"The most widely read of all American autobiographies... [The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin] holds the essence of the American way of life" (Grolier 21)
"This account is the epitome of Franklin's spirit. In it one sees him as a typical though great example of 18th-century enlightenment, a Yankee Puritan who could agree with Rousseau and Voltaire, and use the language of Defoe and Addison with a genial homely twang" (Hart, 142)
London: printed for J. Parsons, 1793
Translated from the French first edition of 1791 and expanded. The ultimate treatise on man's ability to better himself, the Autobiography is notable for its humorous pragmatism and has been called the first American book that belongs permanently to literature. It also provides a fine picture of 18th-century Philadelphia.
With half-title.
Pagination: xvi, 324 pages.
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