Think and Grow Rich! - The Original Version, Restored and Revised

Informationen zum Autor Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) is one of the founding fathers of the self-motivation movement. His Think and Grow Rich! is the most widely acclaimed, influential book on personal success ever published. It has never been out of print since 1937 and has sold an estimated 100 million copies worldwide. Hill was a protege of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, an informal adviser to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and author of more than 30 books. He founded Success Unlimited magazine with his long-time collaborator W. Clement Stone. His signal works are Think and Grow Rich, The Law of Success, and Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (with W. Clement Stone). He was a Virginia native. Klappentext "I thought Think and Grow Rich! was a classic and could never be improved. I was wrong. I am sure Dr. Hill would be greatly pleased to see how his work has been honored and enhanced by this outstanding new edition." -- Wally Amos, author and founder of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies Unlike most versions of Napoleon Hill's famous book, this edition restores his masterpiece to its original form and intent. It includes essential material on how to thrive in challenging economic times that was taken out of later versions but is incredibly relevant today. This is the only edition of Think and Grow Rich! that is fully annotated and indexed, providing key details about Dr. Hill's life and times, his lifelong research, and the leaders of business and industry he studied to glean the invaluable principles of success you'll discover here. Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised(TM)-- * is the only fully annotated version of Hill's 1937 masterpiece * contains 52 pages of endnotes not found elsewhere, representing 10 years of research about Hill and his era, the Think and Grow Rich Philosophy, and the use of the "Carnegie Secret" to achieve success and accumulate wealth * faithfully restores sections of the original 1937 text that were cut out of the book in the 1960s * is "revised" only in correcting errors found in the original edition and to correct instances of inappropriate or obsolete (for today) language * offers one of the only and the most comprehensive index in any edition and the book's first appendix * contains never-before published photographs concerning Hill, including his family burial site WHY THIS EDITION OF "Think and Grow Rich!" IS SPECIAL AND UNIQUE: If you search online or in a bookstore for Think and Grow Rich!, the first thing you notice is there seem to be an awful lot of different versions - most for sale, some free. What's important to know is that there are three versions, or categories, of Napoleon Hill's book available. How to know which to get? 1. FIRST, there's the original text of the book, a "public domain" work that is published by numerous people in the U.S. and abroad. It is available online, in print, and in bookstores and libraries. This version is not copyright-protected. Most of these editions are simply verbatim renditions of the 1937 text. As such, they contain obsolete language and terminology (from the 1920s and 1930s). They contain typographical and grammatical errors and occasionally also language that today may be considered racist or sexist, but wasn't in 1937. Many of these so-called "original editions" are also a "blend" of material. They "intermix" or alternate Hill's original text with entirely new material that was not written by Hill nor ever intended by him to be included in his book. These various versions tend not to read well, as they jump around and back and forth, in confusing and distracting ways, between Hill's original words and other material that has been basically "cut and pasted" into his text. Some publishers have simply attach...

Product details

• Authors: Napoleon Hill, Napoleon/ Cornwell Hill
• Assisted by: Ross Cornwell (Editor)
• Publisher: Scb distributors
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2015
• EAN: 9780990797609
• ISBN: 978-0-9907976-0-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Positives Denken, Erfolg, Reichtum