Bilked for Breakfast

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Foreword IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. Contents XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. Franklin's Letter to Mme. Brillon (April 8, 1784) 27
8. Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout 29
9. The Whistle 42
10. The Ephemera 48
11. The Elysian Fields 53
12. The Elysian Fields 57
13. Bilked for Breakfast 60
14. Letter to the Royal Academy 63
15. A Tale 70
16. Parable Against Persecution 72
17. Information to Those Who Would Remove to America 75
18. Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America 89
19. The Handsome and the Deformed Leg 99
20. The Morals of Chess 103
21. Other Morals of Chess 113
22. Supplementary Bagatelles
23. Note on the Supplementary Bagatelles 116
24. Two Extra Commandments 117
25. An Humble Petition, Presented to Mme Helvétius by her Cats 121
26. To the Abbé de la Roche, at Auteuil 130
27. Letter from Franklin to the Abbé More 133
28. Appendix A, The Provenance of the Mason Copy of the Bagatelles 136
29. Appendix B, Textual Notes 142
30. Appendix C, The Passy Press Types 163
31. Appendix D, Franklin's Friends and Acquaintances 166
32. Bibliography 177
33. Index 185