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020			_a9781107448933 (ebook)
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050		4	_aBJ1611 _b.S6 2014
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100	1		_aSmiles, Samuel, _d1812-1904, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSelf-help : _bwith illustrations of character and conduct / _cSamuel Smiles.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge library collection. British and Irish history, 19th century
500			_aOriginally published: London : John Murray, 1859.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 1. Self-help, national and individual -- 2. Leaders of industry, inventors and producers -- 3. Application and perseverance -- 4. Helps and opportunities -- 5. Workers in art -- 6. Industry and the English peerage -- 7. Energy and courage -- 8. Business qualities -- 9. Money, use and abuse -- 10. Self-culture -- 11. Facilities and difficulties -- 12. Example -- Character - the true gentleman -- Index.
520			_aOne 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.
650		0	_aConduct of life.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108074308
830		0	_aCambridge library collection.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107448933
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