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Self-Help (Paperback)

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The whole self-help genre got its name from this book, published back in 1859.The milestone book is a string of biographies of high achieving people, like Newton, James Watt, Adam Smith, etc. Samuel Smiles has written a 'Gospel of success' for People which truly is timeless. Explaining the qualities which are the true glories of human character and success, he has given you one of the most important self-help books.

This book highlights the remarkable features in life which are "wisdom" and "humility" and above all "Perseverance." One who has these three features shall not fail the race of life.

Facts and Trivia:

Self Help sold 20,000 copies within one year of its publication. By the time of Smiles' death in 1904 it had sold over a quarter of a million.Self Help "elevated Smiles] to celebrity status: almost overnight, he became a leading pundit and much-consulted guru".

The founder of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd., Sakichi Toyoda was significantly influenced by his reading of Self Help. A copy of Self Help is under a glass display at the museum that exists on Sakichi Toyoda's birth site.

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About the Author


Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 - 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and government reformer, who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism", and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781546559900
ISBN-10: 1546559906
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: May 7th, 2017
Pages: 294
Language: English