Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Authors, German --- Statesmen --- Ecrivains allemands --- Biography --- Biography --- Biographies --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Biography.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) is best known as an American revolutionary politician, but he also excelled as a printer, journalist and natural philosopher despite having little formal education. As a statesman, he was the only person to sign all three major documents of American statehood: the Declaration of Independence, the peace treaty with Britain, and the United States constitution. This three-volume set, first published in 1874, was compiled from Franklin's autobiography (covering the period up to 1857) and autobiographical passages from correspondence and other writings. Using Franklin's own words, it tells his remarkable story, which is integral to the political history of America. Franklin's account of self-discipline and motivation remains one of the most popular autobiographies of all time. Volume 3 of Franklin's Life covers the negotiation for peace with Great Britain, the drafting of the United States constitution, and his retirement from public life, and also contains his will.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 --- Biography & Autobiography

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

England, Lancashire --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain. --- Biography.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

HIS History & Biographies --- jubilee volume --- naturalists --- anthropology --- biography

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

John Forster (1812-76), an exact contemporary of Charles Dickens, was one of his closest friends, and acted for him (as for many other authors) as advisor, editor, proofreader, agent and marketing manager: according to Thackeray, 'whenever anyone is in a scrape we all fly to him for refuge. He is omniscient and works miracles.' Forster was Dickens' literary executor, and was left the manuscripts of many of the novels, which he in turn left (along with the rest of his magnificent library) to the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum). He was ideally placed to write a biography of Dickens, having known him since the 1830s, and having been involved in deeply private matters such as Dickens' separation from his wife. This three-volume account was first published between 1872 and 1874; the version of Volume 3 reissued here is the first edition.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --- Authors, English --- Authors --- Literary Criticism --- Biography & Autobiography