Author: John Hunter

Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780856835124

La jaquette indique : "This first biography of the Victorian writer who launched the self-help phenomenon is based on contemporary sources, many previously unexamines. Samuel Smiles's Self-help, first published in 1859, became an international best-seller, giving beleaguered individuals in an era of startling change a new perspective on their personal destiny - a message with sharp resonance in today's world. 'The mind that passively submits to the will of the others'' he said, ' ... that has resigned its individuality, this is not an educated, but a trammelled and degraded mind.'"