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The original edition of this work, first printer as two volumes in 1861, has long been out of print and is now a collector's item. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a popular writer of “edifying” books, in the Victorian sense, whose best-known work, Self-Help (published
in 1859), had sold almost a quarter of a million copies by 1900. As a British counterpart of the writers of American ...
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