Self-Help

Name: Self-Help
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108074308
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With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Autor: Samuel Smiles

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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One of the most popular and prolific writers during the Victorian age, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) emp...

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Autor

Samuel Smiles

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2014

strony

360

EAN

9781108074308

ISBN

1108074308

Enbook ID

02785784

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

460

Wymiary

140 x 216 x 20

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One of the most popular and prolific writers during the Victorian age, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) emphasised individual responsibility in the pursuit of personal and social improvement. Among other titles, his acclaimed Lives of the Engineers (1861-2) and insightful Autobiography (1905) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. He is best known, however, for the present work. First published in 1859, it sold 20,000 copies in its first year, more than a quarter of a million by 1905, and was widely translated. Using hundreds of biographical examples, ranging from George Stephenson to Josiah Wedgwood, Smiles champions the virtues of hard work, perseverance and character in achieving success. While these values appealed to a large readership in the book's heyday, later critics saw the work as promoting a form of selfish materialism. However interpreted, this remains a crucial text for those fascinated by the Victorian drive for self-improvement.

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