Benjamin Franklin's Humor
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: November 30, 2005
Place of publication: Lexington, KY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780813123714
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; Franklin, Benjamin,; United States - Revolutionary War; History; History - U.S.; English; History: American; USA; General; Biography; United States - General; United States - State & Local - General; 1706-1790; American wit and humor; Quotations; Statesmen; United States
First sentence: At thirteen, Franklin plunged into print with a timely ballad about lighthouse keeper George Worthylake drowning with two daughters in the heavy November surf of Boston Harbor.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A life in laughter; title: Silence Dogood, 1722-1723; title: Paragraphs in Philadelphia, 1729-1735; title: Philadelphia's Poor Richard, 1733-1748; title: Philadelphia comic relief, 1748-1757; title: Making friends overseas, 1757-1774; title: Losing London, 1773-1776; title: Seducing Paris, 1776-1782; title: Comic release, 1783-1785; title: Revising past and future, 1786-1790