Self Help - Hardcover

Samuel Smiles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0283993553 ISBN 13: 9780283993558

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 1986

Synopsis

some wear to dust wrapper but generally in good used condition

About this title

From the Back Cover

Who better to take inspirational advice from than a man named Smiles? But unlike the feel-good cheerleading that the term "self-help" says to us today, to Smiles it might well have been synonymous with "hard work." For this 1859 volume is dedicated to "stimulat[ing] youths to apply themselves diligently to right pursuits,--sparing neither labour, pains, nor self-denial in prosecuting them--and to rely upon their own efforts in life."

Though the author himself admits his lessons are "old-fashioned but wholesome," he nevertheless delivers stern but well-intentioned lectures on such commonsense concepts as the importance of learning from failure, how work is the best teacher, and the value of thrift, gentility, and honesty, all peppered with examples of such noble industry from the lives of writers, scientists, artists, inventors, educators, philanthropists, missionaries, and--gulp!--martyrs. It's as if all paternal wisdom had been reduced to a single book.

About the Author

Peter W. Sinnema is an Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of Alberta.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0283993553
• ISBN 13: 9780283993558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251
• Editor: George Bull