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American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Also known as: Ben Franklin, Franklin, Polly Baker, Poor Richard, Richard Saunders, Silence Dogood
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Thomas Paine1737–1809ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPlain-spoken Enlightenment political pamphlets addressing revolutionary-era American readers. (AI reason)
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEnlightenment essays and notes blending natural philosophy with political thought. (AI reason)
Jonathan Swift1667–1745ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSatirical essays and hoaxes in a deadpan comic voice like Franklin's bagatelles. (AI reason)
Joseph Addison1672–1719ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPeriodical essays of moral improvement and urbane wit that shaped Franklin's prose style. (AI reason)
Voltaire1694–1778ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWitty Enlightenment prose mixing satire, reason and practical philosophy. (AI reason)
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Mark Twain1835–1910ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFolksy American humor, aphorism and irreverent satire. (AI reason)
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEssays on self-reliance and self-improvement in an American moral tradition. (AI reason)
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetReflective first-person prose on thrift, self-discipline and practical living. (AI reason)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEighteenth-century moral essays rich in aphoristic wisdom. (AI reason)
Frederick Douglass1818–1895ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetClassic American autobiography of self-education and self-making. (AI reason)
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- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1892)
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition