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table of contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Imprint
  3. Introduction
    1. The Story of the Autobiography
  4. Epigraph
  5. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    1. I: Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
    2. II: Beginning Life as a Printer
    3. III: Arrival in Philadelphia
    4. IV: First Visit to Boston
    5. V: Early Friends in Philadelphia
    6. VI: First Visit to London
    7. VII: Beginning Business in Philadelphia
    8. VIII: Business Success and First Public Service
    9. IX: Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
    10. X: Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities
    11. XI: Interest in Public Affairs
    12. XII: Defense of the Province
    13. XIII: Public Services and Duties (1749⁠–⁠1753)
    14. XIV: Albany Plan of Union
    15. XV: Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors
    16. XVI: Braddock’s Expedition
    17. XVII: Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier
    18. XVIII: Scientific Experiments
    19. XIX: Agent of Pennsylvania in London
  6. Endnotes
  7. Colophon
  8. Uncopyright

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
was written between 1771 and 1790 by
Benjamin Franklin.

This ebook was produced for the
Standard Ebooks project
by
Alex Cabal,
and is based on a transcription produced in 2006 by
Turgut Dincer, Brian Sogard, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans available at
Google Books.

The cover page is adapted from
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin,
a painting completed in 1767 by
David Martin.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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This is the 20th edition of this ebook.
This edition was released on
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