Self-help

This 1859 guide coined the term self-help, promoting perseverance and ingenuity despite hardships and disappointments. Examples from the lives of prominent inve

Steve Shipside’s thoroughly up-to-date interpretation of Samuel Smiles’s Self-help, a self-improvement classic, illustrates the principles of Smiles’s phi

Silas Marner is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sop

Carl J. Martinson collection.

A bestseller in 1859, Self-Help became one of Victorian Britain's most important statements on the allied virtues of hard work, thrift, and perseverance. Smiles