Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanacks

Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanacks

by Benjamin Franklin, Norman Rockwell (Illustrator)
Publisher: Bonanza Books
1979 Edition, ©1964, ISBN: 9780517308066
Hardcover, 300 pages
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This wonderful, and historic book: Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733 -1758 is a gem. Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanacks, are a classic of American letters and were, in their day, an immensely popular and influential publication. In colonial America they were read by one out of every hundred people; in France alone they went through fifty-six editions. Many of the sayings and homilies in Poor Richard have become a permanent part of American folk wisdom.
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