Self-help by Samuel Smiles

Self-help by Samuel Smiles

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This is an unabridged reproduction of the 1866 edition. Smiles uses inspiring stories of hundreds of individuals to convey the timeless message that success owes little to birth or fortune, but depends much on an individual's capacity for hard work and perseverance in the face of difficulty.

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Self-help by Samuel Smiles

"Samuel Smiles is alive and well and available to lead us into the next decade...The Victorian moralist's universal best-seller...is a better guide to the prevailing political and economic orthodoxy than the incomprehensible texts of that other 19th century thinker, Karl Marx." Joe Rogaly, The Financial Times. "The message of this book, which is readable and full of stunning quotations, is: God helps those who help themselves. A century after smiles' death we have had to learn this all over again - the hard way." Paul Johnson, The Daily Mail. "Samuel Smiles' Self-Help is one of those books whose titles is so familiar that we think we have read it. To my shame I had not actually done so until it was splendidly reprinted this year." Peter Lilley, The Sunday Telegraph. "Self-Help is about the nobility of strengthening one's character and should provide food for thought." Times Higher Education Supplement. "As a storyteller [Smiles] is vivid, most of all when he conjures up the industrial revolutionaries: Wedgewood, Watt, Arkwright, George Stephenson and even Jonas Hanway, who taught City men their habit of carrying umbrellas." Christopher Fildes, The Spectator.
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ISBN 13 9780255363655
ISBN 10 0255363656
Titre Self-help
Auteur Samuel Smiles
Série Rediscovered Riches
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Civitas:Institute for the Study of Civil Society
Année de publication 1996-06-01
Nombre de pages 281
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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