SMILES, Samuel.

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Self-Help; First edition of the defining self-help manual, and a Victorian best-seller, espousing the virtues of self-reliance and industry both to better oneself and as the basis of achieving social progress, rather than relying on government action or the charity of others."Its success was immediate and then unequalled, [selling] two hundred and seventy thousand copies by the end of the century. It was translated into almost every foreign language, but the proof of its success which most delighted Smiles was the number of letters attesting its usefulness which he received from artisans - the class to whom it was directed - all over the world" (PMM).

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