As a Man Thinketh

by James Allen

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

The quest for satisfaction in life is often an arduous one, and this book is here to remind readers that the individual is in charge of their own lot. This is a guide on how to take control of that charge.

Here is the definitive edition of As a Man Thinketh. In addition to James' masterful text, this volume contains essays from international bestsellers Orison Swett Marden and Robert Collier on the subject. Let this book show you how the way you think affects your daily life. Millions of people have found the pathway to wealth and fulfillment with As a Man Thinketh. Long before there were the Law of Attraction and The Secret, there was James Allen's As a Man Thinketh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627554169
Publisher:	Sublime Books
Publication date:	07/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	126
File size:	123 KB

About the Author

James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. He took his first job at age 15 to support his family, after his father was murdered while looking for work in America. Allen was employed as a factory knitter and a private secretary until the early twentieth century, when he became increasingly known for his motivational writing. His 1903 work As a Man Thinketh earned him worldwide fame as a prophet of inspirational thinking and influenced a who's-who of self-help writers, including Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, and Norman Vincent Peale. Allen died at age 47 in 1912.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

About the Author xi

1 Thought & Character 1

2 Effect of Thought on Circumstances 9

3 Effect of Thought on Health and the Body 29

4 Thought & Purpose 35

5 The Thought-Factor in Achievement 43

6 Visions & Ideals 51

7 Serenity 61

Editorial Reviews

With the success of THE SECRET, some of the older "positive thinking" gurus are being dusted off and reissued. Allen wrote on the vanguard of the movement, which was facilitated by the marginalization of Protestantism's doctrine of original sin by some Christian leaders in the 1950s. Charley Steiner's brusque, deep voice seems hurried, perhaps due to time restrictions concerning the capture of the entire book on a single CD. He is unconvincing as he delivers the name-it-and-claim-it platitudes that will be repetitive to those who are familiar with them and cloying to those who are not. He has a tendency to fire the bromides rapidly, barely allowing the each one to make its impression before restating it. S.M.M. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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