The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Samuel Smiles

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ISBN 10 : 1331664217 ISBN 13 : 9781331664215

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles

Nor is the monument which he has raised to their memory a mere collection of dry-as-dust facts. Leaving the technical details to the text-books, and to the records of scientific societies, he has introduced his heroes to a wider public, and made them live again in his pages. His was a new departure in biography. He saw that the everyday work of applied science had its romance. He grasped the fact that the million had become readers, and required to be amused as well as instructed. This, from the literary point of view, is his great merit, and entitles him to be enrolled in the honourable company of story-tellers. Apart from the historical value of his biographies, they are told in a manner so vivacious and dramatic that they have proved themselves irresistibly attractive to young and old in all countries of the world. 8oth in regard to the interest of the theme commemorated, and the literary skill with which it is presented, the Life of George Stephenson has made good its right to rank as an English classic. In that volume and in the Lives of the Engineers, the didactic element is less pro nounced than in other of his works, and, for this reason perhaps, they will be for some readers more completely enjoyable.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Europe, and into most of those of Asia and America require no apology other than that which the author himself has seen fit to set down in the opening paragraphs of his work. The life, as conceived and chronicled by himself, of an author whose thoughts have arrested and held the attention of more than a generation of readers, cannot fail to be of interest, even when, as in the present case, there is nothing eventful, apart from the writing of his books, to be recorded. Dr Smiles first book was published in 1836, and he continued to write till nearly the close of the century. The period of his literary labours, therefore, is almost exactly coincident with the reign of the late Queen Victoria, the age pre-eminently of mechanical invention. Dr Smiles achievement is that by common consent he is recognised as the authorised and pious chronicler of the men who founded the industrial greatness of England. His works, therefore, have a historical value peculiarly their own.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331664217
• ISBN 13: 9781331664215
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 486
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