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Large Format for easy reading. A Victorian Classic. Focuses on the need for individual self improvement in society, drawing inspiration from some of the great entrepreneurs of the era.

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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.

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

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  • PublisherDodo Pr
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1406500453
  • ISBN 13 9781406500455
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages316
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