出版时间:2010-4 出版社:世界图书出版公司 作者:本杰明·富兰克林 页数:337
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前言
世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画,让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此,我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。 我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者,请教了专业的翻译人员,精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作,并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友的建议,不删节、不做任何人为改动,严格按照原著的风格,提供原汁原味的西方名著,让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。 随着阅读的展开,你会发现自己的英语水平无形中有了大幅提高,并且对西方历史文化的了解也日益深入广阔。 送您一套经典,让您受益永远!
内容概要
《富兰克林自传》是一部影响了几代美国人、历经两百余年经久不衰的励志奇书。它包含了人生奋斗与成功的真知灼见,以及诸种善与美的道德真谛,被公认为是改变了无数人命运的美国精神读本。阅读本书,与一个伟大心灵对话,收获一份人生修养的智慧。
作者简介
本杰明·富兰克林是18世纪美国的实业家、科学家、社会活动家、思想家、文学家和外交家。他还是一位优秀的政治家,是美国独立战争的老战士。他参加起草了《独立宣言》和美国宪法,积极主张废除奴隶制度,深受美国人民的崇敬。
书籍目录
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTRODUCTION PART ONE 1. Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston 2. Beginning Life as a Printer 3. Arrival in Philadelphia 4. First Visit to Boston 5. Early Friends in Philadelphia 6. First Visit to London 7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia 8. Business Success and First Public Service PART TWO 9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection PART THREE 10. Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities 11. Interest in Public Affairs12. Defense of the Province 13. Public Services and Duties (1749~1753) 14. Albany Plan of Union15. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors16. Braddock’s Expedition17. Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier 18. Scientific Experiments 19. Agent of Pennsylvania in London PART FOUR SELECTED WRITINGS NEWSPAPER WRITINGS: 1722~1734 Silence Dogood, No. 7 (1722) Preface to the Pennsylvania Gazette (1729) A Witch Trial at Mount Holly POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC: 1733~1758 Preface to Poor Richard (1733) Preface to Poor Richard (1739) The Way to Wealth PROJECTS: 1728~1749 A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America (1743) OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS: 1744~1785 An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fireplaces Of Lightning (The Lightning Road)(1767) ESSAYS: 1747~1768 The Speech of Polly Baker(1747) Exporting of Felons to the Colonies (1751) Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, and the Peopling of Countries (1751) On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor (1766) LETTERS: 1771~1775 What Sort of Husbands Would Be Fittest (1771) To Jonathan Shipley (1775) REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS: 1766~1787 Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One; Presented privately to a late Minister, when he entered upon his Administration(1773) To the Count de Vergennes, a Diplomatic Apology (1782) Speech in the Convention, at the Constitution of Its Deliberrations(1787) WISE, PRACTICAL, AND HUMOROUS WRITINGS OF THE AGED SAGE: 1722~1790 To Joseph Priestley,On Moral Algebra, or Decision-making (1772) The Ephemera (1778) The Whistle (1779) A Letter to Samuel Mather (1784) To Ezra Stiles a Religious Credo (1790) POEMS AND EPITAPH I Sing My Plain Country Joan Epitaph Written 1728
章节摘录
for the benefit of his posterity. He wanted to help them by therelation of his own rise from obscurity and poverty to eminence andwealth. He is not unmindful of the importance of his public servicesand their recognition, yet his accounts-of these achievements aregiven only as a part of the story, and the vanity displayed is incidentaland in keeping with the honesty of the rocital. There is nothing of theimpossible in the method and practice of Franklin as he sets themforth. The youth who reads the fascinating story is astonished to findthat Franklin in his early years struggled with the same everydaypassions and difficulties that he himself experiences, and he loses thesense of discouragement that comes from a realization of his ownshortcomings and inability to attain. There are other reasons why the Autobiography should be anintimate friend of American young people. Here they may establish aclose relationship with one of the foremost Americans as well as oneof the wisest men of his age. The life of Benjamin Franklin is of importance to every Americanprimarily because of the part he played in securing the independenceof the United States and in establishing it as a nation. Franklin shareswith Washington the honors of the Revolution, and of the eventsleading to the birth of the new nation. While Washington was theanimating spirit of the struggle in the colonies, Franklin was its ablestchampion abroad. To Franklins cogent reasoning and keen satire, weowe the clear and forcible presentation of the American case inEngland and France; while to his personality and diplomacy as wellas to his facile pen, we are indebted for the foreign alliance and thefunds without which Washingtons work must have failed. Hispatience, fortitude, and practical wisdom, coupled withself-sacrificing devotion to the cause of his country, are hardly less.
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