Self-Help

Self Help published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles.

It has bee’n called “the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism”.

Self Help sold 20,000 copies within one year of its publication.

By the time of Smiles’ death in 1904,
it had sold over a quarter of a million.

 Self-Help elevated Smiles to celebrity status; almost overnight,
he became a leading pundit and much-consulted guru.