Acres of Diamonds (A FIRST PRINTING)

Conwell, Russell H.

ISBN 10: 1604591927 / ISBN 13: 9781604591927

Edité par WILDER PUBLICATIONS,UK, 2008

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• Titre: Acres of Diamonds (A FIRST PRINTING)
• Éditeur: WILDER PUBLICATIONS,UK
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1604591927
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781604591927
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

In Acres of Diamonds Russell H. Conwell shows us how to identify the riches and opportunity that lie all around us. Many people search their entire life for opportunity never realizing that everything they need to succeed is already within their reach if only they recognized it. This edition has an introduction by John Wanamaker; a biography of Conwell by Robert Shackleton; and an additional essay entitled "The Acre of Diamonds" by Robert Collier that you wont find in other editions, making this the definitive edition.

Biographie de l'auteur

Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia.

The original inspiration for his most famous essay, "Acres of Diamonds," occurred in 1869 when Conwell was traveling in the Middle East. The work began as a speech, "at first given," wrote Conwell in 1913, "before a reunion of my old comrades of the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, which served in the Civil War and in which I was captain."

The central idea of the work is that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune—the resources to achieve all good things are present in one's own community.

Conwell's name lives on in the present-day Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.