Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverence: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance (Rediscovered riches, Band 1) - Softcover

Smiles, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0255363656 ISBN 13: 9780255363655

Verlag: Civitas:Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

"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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Civitas:Institute for the Study of Civil Society
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0255363656
• ISBN 13: 9780255363655
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 281
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