{"product_id":"self-help","title":"Self-Help","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA modern-English edition of Samuel Smiles’s 1859 classic on discipline, ambition, perseverance, and character.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is one of the foundational books of modern self-help. The original had enormous influence, but its Victorian prose can slow modern readers down. This edition keeps the seriousness and force of Smiles’s argument while making it much more accessible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelf-Help\u003c\/strong\u003e is not shallow motivational writing. It is a sustained case for effort, habits, reputation, self-education, and moral seriousness as engines of advancement. It helped shape the language of improvement for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in the origins of self-help culture, the ethics of work, or nineteenth-century ideas of success will find this book historically important and still very usable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ebook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47727768010906,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/6501\/4170\/files\/9_774bbee5-da5d-4478-ab60-8b396bdff9e9.jpg?v=1775167563","url":"https:\/\/bookmodernizer.com\/products\/self-help","provider":"The Book Modernizer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}