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ベンジャミン・フランクリン自伝のあらすじ

著者：ベンジャミン・フランクリン

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A runaway printer's apprentice reaches Philadelphia with three rolls of bread and sets out to improve his character.

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初版刊行年: 1791by ベンジャミン・フランクリン

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ベンジャミン・フランクリン自伝 in short

Franklin's Autobiography is a letter that becomes a manual. It starts with a family of dyers and blacksmiths and a boy making candles in Boston. It follows his flight to Philadelphia, his years in London, and the business, club, library and almanac that make his name.

What ベンジャミン・フランクリン自伝 is about

What does a runaway printer's apprentice, seventeen years old and almost penniless, have to teach you about building a good life? Benjamin Franklin walks up Market Street in Philadelphia with three rolls of bread, two under his arms and one in his mouth. A girl in a doorway thinks he looks ridiculous. She will later become his wife.

This is the Autobiography, written by Franklin between 1771 and 1789. It begins as a letter to his son and grows into the story of a candle maker's son who becomes a printer, a writer, a scientist and a public servant. He is frank about his faults, which he calls errata, the printer's word for mistakes. You get a working method for self-improvement.

対象読者. You will enjoy this if you like true stories of self-made lives, practical advice on habits and money, or a witty storyteller who smiles at his own mistakes.

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A candle maker's son starts with family
Franklin writes his opening pages from a country house in England in 1771. He addresses his son and says he wants to share the means by which he rose from poverty and obscurity. He would live the same life again, if he could fix a few faults, as an author fixes a second edition.
His father Josiah, a dyer, sails to New England around 1682 to worship freely. In Boston he makes candles and soap for a household of seventeen children. Young Benjamin hates the trade and longs for the sea. One night he moves a builder's pile of stones to make a fishing wharf. His father makes him see that nothing is useful unless it is honest.
The father's dinner table, where talk of useful things matters more than food, shapes the son too.
Habits and values are taught early by the example of people who love you.
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Reading and copying turn a boy into a writer
Franklin spends every coin on books.
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A quarrel with his brother sends him running
In 1721 James starts a newspaper, the New England Courant.
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Three rolls of bread begin a new life
The trip to Philadelphia is rough.
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London teaches costly lessons about friends
In London in December 1724 Franklin finds that no letters of credit await him.
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Work, clubs and a library build a printer's credit
Back in Philadelphia in 1726, Franklin works for Denham until the merchant's fatal illness leaves him out of a job.
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A little book tracks thirteen virtues
Franklin conceives a bold plan: to reach moral perfection.
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Public projects begin with small, practical steps
As his wealth grows, Franklin turns to the town.
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War and union test him on a larger stage
When France and Spain threaten the colony in the 1740s, the Quaker Assembly will not pass a militia law.
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Lightning, London and the lessons that last
Franklin's science begins in Boston in 1746 with some electrical experiments.
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『ベンジャミン・フランクリン自伝』についての質問

What is the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin about?

It tells how Franklin rose from a Boston candle maker's son to a printer, writer, scientist and public servant. It covers his youth, his London years, his habit-building plan, his civic projects and the political quarrels of colonial Pennsylvania.

What are Franklin's thirteen virtues?

They are temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility. He practiced one each week and marked his faults in a small book, so that good habits could replace bad ones.

Did Franklin finish the Autobiography?

He wrote it in several stretches between 1771 and 1789, and it stops in the middle of his London business in the late 1750s. The pages after that are letters and short pieces, such as The Way to Wealth and The Whistle.

What does Franklin mean by paying too much for the whistle?

In a letter to Madame Brillon he tells of buying a toy whistle at seven for far more than it was worth. He uses it to describe people who give up too much for fame, wealth or pleasure.

Is the Autobiography easy to read today?

Franklin writes in a clear, friendly voice with short anecdotes, humor and direct advice. Scenes such as his arrival in Philadelphia or the Braddock wagons read like stories, so a reader can enjoy it a chapter at a time.

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Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin.

Franklin, B. (2026). Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin (Original work published 1791)

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin.

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  title = {Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin},
  publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin},
  note = {First published 1791}
}