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书名：The Autobiography and Other Writings富兰克林自传及作品集
作者：Benjamin Franklin本杰明·富兰克林
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2014
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451469885
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.3 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：328 （以实物为准）
百元美钞正面的肖像，不是林肯，也不是华盛顿，而是本杰明·富兰克林。
本杰明·富兰克林的一生诠释了什么是美国梦，他的精神定义了什么是美国人。
The Autobiography《富兰克林自传》是历经两百余年而不衰的励志奇书，影响了好几代美国人，至今依然是美国重要的、读者不可胜数的自传作品。书中包含了很多通过努力奋斗走向成功的真知灼见，以及众多道德真谛与对世人的告诫，成为改变无数人命运的美国精神读本。美国《时代周刊》推荐，美国国会图书馆评选“塑造美国的书”（books that shaped America）之一。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Walter Isaacson作序，Carla Mulford写后记。书本小巧便携，内容完整无删减。
A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father.
Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country’s survival.
Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments. Additional writings from Benjamin Franklin’s wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who became a legend in his own time.
Edited by L. Jesse Lemich
With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
and an Afterword by Carla Mulford
The Autobiography《富兰克林自传》实际上是本杰明·富兰克林写给儿子威廉·富兰克林的家书。以拉家常的方式，把自己成功的经验和失败的教训娓娓道来，整部自传在通俗易懂的叙述中不时会有睿智和哲理的火花，开创了美国传记文学的优良传统，使自传成为一种新的文学体裁。《富兰克林自传》是在读者如饥似渴的等待中出版的，一经问世被一抢而光。世界各地的青年人都希望学习富兰克林成功的秘诀，他们把这部书当成“人生指导”读物。本书除自传，还收录了本杰明·富兰克林的其他作品，包括科学实验报告、随笔等。
Here are selections from Franklin’s newspaper articles, from the sage wisdom of Poor Richard’s Almanac, from his entertaining letters, from his scientific essays, from his political and revolutionary writings, plus a generous sampling of his famous aphorisms, poems, and humor. And, most important, here is a newly edited text of one of the most vital and important works of American literature, the Autobiography. As fascinating and as relevant as ever, this timeless collection of writings reveals an extraordinary man whose mind was always curious, always questioning, and who forever remained dedicated to the principles of truth and liberty.
本杰明·富兰克林出生于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿，美国著名的政治家、物理学家，同时也是出版商、印刷商、记者、作家、慈善家；更是杰出的外交家及发明家。他是美国独立战争时重要的领导人之一，参与了多项重要文件的草拟，并曾出任美国驻法国大使，成功取得法国支持美国独立。富兰克林曾经进行多项关于电的实验，并且发明了避雷针。他还发明了双焦点眼镜，蛙鞋等等。富兰克林被选为英国皇家学会院士，曾是美国首位邮政局长，并被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物第6名。
Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) was born in Boston. When he was twelve, his father apprenticed him to his half brother James as a printer. James was later the publisher of the New England Courant, where Franklin's first articles, “The Dogood Papers,” were published before he was seventeen. He went to Philadelphia in 1723, where he was befriended by William Keith, Governor of Pennsylvania, who offered to help Franklin get started in business. They went to England, where he hoped to purchase printing equipment, but he was soon deserted by Keith and again turned to printing for a livelihood. His privately printed “A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain” (1725) introduced him to leading Deists and other intellectuals in London. A year later, he returned to Philadelphia, and by 1730, he had been appointed public printer for Pennsylvania. In 1731, he established the first circulation library in the United States and, in 1743-44, the American Philosophical Society. As a publisher, his greatest success was Poor Richard's Almanack, which went through numerous editions and was translated into many languages. Over the next thirty-five years, he devoted himself largely to politics and diplomacy, by serving in the Continental Congress, signing the Declaration of Independence, and becoming Minister to France. On his return in 1785, he was elected President of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Still concerned with the rights of the individual, he published papers encouraging the abolition of slavery. He died in Philadelphia.
L. Jesse Lemisch is Professor Emeritus of History at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. Among his notable works is The American Revolution Seen from the Bottom Up.
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time. He is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, DC.
Carla Mulford has been teaching early American literature and culture and Native American studies at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 1986. The Founding President of the Society of Early Americanists, she has published books related to Franklin's associates and contemporaries John Leacock, Annis Stockon, William Hill Brown, and Hannah Webster Foster. She has also compiled (with Amy E. Winans and Angela Vietto) two collections: a biographical dictionary, American Women Prose Writers to 1820, and an anthology of readings, Early American Writings. She has published several essays on Benjamin Franklin and is working on two book-length studies of Franklin called Benjamin Franklin and the Arts of Science and Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire.
Introduction by Walter Isaacson
Editor’s Preface by L. Jesse Lemisch
PART ONE—The Autobiography
Editor’s Note
PART TWO—Selected Writings
I The Way to Wealth
II Essays to Do Good
III The New Prometheus, I: Franklin the Scientist
IV The New Prometheus, II: Franklin and the Revolution
V The Family Man
VI Something of His Religion
Afterword: Imagining Benjamin Franklin by Carla Mulford
Additional Reading
Notes on the Sources
The Sources
DEAR SON:
I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week’s uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.
That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable. But though this were denied, I should still accept the offer. Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one’s life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
