what famous book did benjamin franklin wrote?
Poor Richard's Almanac of 1739 Poor Richard's Almanac of 1758
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 The book was popular in the Thirteen Colonies of America , and its appeal survived the American War of Independence , copies being owned by Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . 

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 Fictional treatments of the final Franklin expedition begin with Jules Verne 's Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras , ( 1866 ) , in which the novel 's hero seeks to retrace Franklin 's footsteps and discovers that the North Pole is dominated by an enormous volcano . Mark Twain briefly satirized the fate of the expedition and its subsequent searches in the beginning of the story " Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls " ( 1875 ) . The German novelist Sten Nadolny 's The Discovery of Slowness ( 1983 ; English translation 1987 ) takes on the entirety of Franklin 's life , touching only briefly on his last expedition . Other recent novelistic treatments of Franklin include Mordecai Richler 's Solomon Gursky Was Here ( 1989 ) , William T. Vollmann 's The Rifles ( 1994 ) , John Wilson 's North With Franklin : The Journals of James Fitzjames ( 1999 ) ; and Dan Simmons 's The Terror ( 2007 ) - the latter of which is being developed as an AMC television series , announced in February 2013 . The expedition has also been the subject of a horror role @-@ playing game supplement , The Walker in the Wastes . Most recently , Clive Cussler 's 2008 novel Arctic Drift incorporates the ordeal of the Franklin expedition as a central element in the story , and Richard Flanagan 's Wanting ( 2009 ) deals with Franklin 's deeds in both Tasmania and the Arctic . 2013 ’ s novel The White Passage rounds out the list with a vaguely science @-@ fiction take on the concepts of time @-@ travel and the consequences of an alternate fate of the lost expedition . 

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 John Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document , which Congress would edit to produce the final version . The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain , more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War . The next day , July 3 , John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail : " The Second Day of July 1776 , will be the most memorable Epocha , in the History of America . " But the national birthday , Independence Day , is celebrated on July 4 , the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed . 

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 He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle , written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle . After moving to England for the family business in 1815 , he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon , Gent. in 1819 – 20 . He continued to publish regularly — and almost always successfully — throughout his life , and just eight months before his death ( at age 76 , in Tarrytown , New York ) , completed a five @-@ volume biography of George Washington . 

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 Accounts of his studies and adventures there were eventually published in 1869 as The Malay Archipelago , which became one of the most popular books of scientific exploration of the 19th century , and has never been out of print . It was praised by scientists such as Darwin ( to whom the book was dedicated ) , and Charles Lyell , and by non @-@ scientists such as the novelist Joseph Conrad , who called it his " favorite bedside companion " and used it as source of information for several of his novels , especially Lord Jim . 
