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This collection of Franklin's works begins with letters sent from London (1757-1775) describing the events and diplomacy preceding the Revolutionary War. The volume also contains political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters written in Paris (1776-1785), where he represented the revolutionary United States at the court of Louis XVI, as well as his speeches given in the Constitutional Convention and other works written in Philadelphia (1785-1790), including his last published article, a searing satire against slavery.

Also included are the delightfully shrewd prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanack (1733-1758) and their worldly, pungent maxims that have entered our American culture. Finally, the classic Autobiography, Franklin's last word on his greatest literary creation-his own invented personality-is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to Franklin's manuscript.

A companion volume includes the complete "Silence Dogood" series, "Busy-Body" essays, and a generous selection of his early writings, including letters to the press, satires, and pamphlets.]]> 289513 3.72 3191 405 589823 4.00 1 1 22590 4.08 467 30 1997 5742754 014310554X 9780143105541 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5742754.The_Financier 3.50 8 A defiant critique of American capitalism

A MASTER OF GRITTY NATURALISM, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities—a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreiser’s 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as well as a devastating character study of one of the most unforgettable American businessmen in twentieth-century literature.]]> 8987 3.65 5713 614 22590 4.08 467 30 1919 448437 0140390138 9780140390131 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174865332m/448437.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174865332s/448437.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448437.Selected_Essays 4.05 57
Contents:
*Nature
*The American Scholar
*An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge
*Man the Reformer
*History
*Self-Reliance
*The Over-Soul
*Circles
*The Transcendentalist
*The Poet
*Experience
*Montaigne; Or, the Skeptic
*Napoleon, Or, the Man of the World
*Fate
*Thoreau]]> 12080 4.16 3752 319 22590 4.08 467 30 1978 738669 0143039547 9780143039549 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177876091m/738669.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177876091s/738669.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/738669.The_Portable_Benjamin_Franklin 3.00 1 A generous selection of writings that brings to life the attractive, complex, and guileful genius of the most celebrated American of his age

It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin's major writings— essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin's temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon.]]> 289513 3.72 3191 405 22590 4.08 467 30 1986 157790 0803299001 9780803299009 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157790.The_American_1890s_Life_and_Time_of_a_Lost_Generation 3.00 4 22590 4.08 467 30 1968 1294101 0670430269 9780670430260 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1294101.Literary_Democracy_The_Declaration_of_Cultural_Independence_in_America 3.00 2 22590 4.08 467 30 1981 967321 0195170199 9780195170191 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179875425m/967321.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179875425s/967321.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967321.Mark_Twain 5.00 1 22590 4.08 467 30 2004 967324 0300082363 9780300082364 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179875426m/967324.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179875426s/967324.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967324.Return_Passages_Great_American_Travel_Writing_1780_1910 5.00 1 22590 4.08 467 30 2000 3603307 0670583103 9780670583102 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3603307.Puritanism_in_America 0.0 0 22590 4.08 467 30 1973 7406230 0641740808 9780641740800 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7406230-mark-twain 0.0 0 22590 4.08 467 30 2004 536761 0300050402 9780300050400 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/536761.Writing_in_the_New_Nation_Prose_Print_and_Politics_in_the_Early_United_States 0.0 0 22590 4.08 467 30 1991 6591485 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6591485-mark-twain 0.0 0 22590 4.08 467 30 2004 2675068 0195308638 9780195308631 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2675068.The_Lives_and_Legacies_Set_Consisting_of_Mark_Twain_Walt_Whitman_and_Winston_Churchill 0.0 0 22590 4.08 467 30 25384 4.05 184 50 259174 3.30 10 2 2005