Self-Help : With Illustrations of Character and Conduct.
Title:
Self-Help : With Illustrations of Character and Conduct.
Author:
Smiles, Samuel.
ISBN:
9781775566083
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (588 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Chapter I Self-Help-National and Individual -- Chapter II Leaders of Industry -Inventors and Producers -- Chapter III The Great Potters -Palissy, Bottgher, Wedgwood -- Chapter IV Application and Perseverance -- Chapter V Helps and Opportunities-Scientific Pursuits -- Chapter VI Workers in Art -- Chapter VII Industry and the Peerage -- Chapter VIII Energy and Courage -- Chapter IX Men of Business -- Chapter X Money-Its Use and Abuse -- Chapter XI Self-Culture- Facilities and Difficulties -- Chapter XII Example-Models -- Chapter XIII Character-The True Gentleman -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
Selling 20,000 copies in the first year after its publication in 1859, Samuel Smiles' Self-Help made its author an overnight celebrity and much sought-after guru for many. It had sold over a quarter of a million copies by Smiles' death in 1904. The social campaigner Robert Blatchford said of Self-Help that it was "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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