Samuel Smiles Collection Vol 1: Self Help, Character, Thrift - Softcover

This volume 1 of Samuel Smiles works collects his first three books, which inspired authors such as Orison Swett Marden, Wallace Wattles and several others of the New Thought Movement. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), included in this collection, promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism", and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight. The books are: Self-Help, 1859 Character, 1871 Thrift, 1875