Author
Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was a Scottish physician, journalist and author of books about people who made their way through their own labour. The best known, “Self-Help”, came out in 1859, and this book carries on that work a quarter of a century later.
Books in Livria
- Men of Invention and Industry
An iron boat that nine hundred and ninety-nine people in a thousand did not believe in. A farmer with a screw propeller, a seller of prints who ran carts across all of Ireland, a carpenter who taught sailors to find…
- Self-Help
Pupils who taught each other in a former cholera hospital inspired the doctor Samuel Smiles to write a book about people who made themselves. Patience instead of genius, failure as a teacher, spare minutes, money and…