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    Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758
    Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758
    Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758
    Audiobook9 hours

    Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758

    Written by Benjamin Franklin

    Narrated by Robert Bethune

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    About this audiobook

    Since Ben Franklin would have been amazed at audiobooks, let these few details be added: unlike most editions of Poor Richard, this one includes essentially all of the text, not just the aphorisms and sayings. This gives you, Courteous Listener, a much better appreciation of how Franklin wrote and thought.

    In particular, you will find that the full body of the Poor Richard almanacs contains a great deal of religious and spiritual thought in which Franklin laid out and propounded his understanding of Christianity as it stood in his day.

    Last but not least, since a long parade of sayings, poems, etc., would be dull all strung together, this edition includes snippets of music between them, drawn from about four dozen Colonial-era tunes and imitating the sound of Colonial instruments such as flute, fife, lute, English guitar, music box, and harpsichord.

    May you enjoy it and draw benefit from it, as Ben himself would have wished!

    A Freshwater Seas audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreshwater Seas
    Release dateOct 10, 2011
    ISBN9781933311456
    Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758
    Author

    Benjamin Franklin

    <b>Benjamin Franklin</b> was a writer, inventor, political theorist, diplomat, and Founding Father of the United States. He wrote under the pen name of Poor Richard from 1732 to 1757.

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