9788028334611 - acres of diamonds: a classic success sermon on opportunity, work, and gilded age prosperity di conwell, russell (2 risultati)
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Acres of Diamonds is Russell Conwell's celebrated lecture-turned-classic, a compact work of moral exhortation built around the parable of Ali Hafed, who abandons his home in search of diamonds only to miss the wealth beneath his own fields. Its style is sermonic, anecdotal, and insistently… practical, combining nineteenth-century pulpit rhetoric with the emerging American literature of self-help and civic uplift. In the context of the Gilded Age, it reframes prosperity not as greed, but as the disciplined recognition of opportunity close at hand. Conwell, a Baptist minister, lawyer, journalist, Civil War veteran, and founder of Temple University, brought to the book a life shaped by public service and educational ambition. He delivered the lecture thousands of times, using its proceeds to support students and institutions. This background helps explain the work's fusion of entrepreneurial optimism, Christian moral duty, and faith in individual improvement. Readers interested in American motivational literature, religious rhetoric, or the intellectual roots of success culture will find Acres of Diamonds both historically revealing and still provocative. It rewards attention as a brief but influential meditation on work, perception, and responsibility.
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Acres of Diamonds | A Classic Success Sermon on Opportunity, Work, and Gilded Age Prosperity | Russell Conwell | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | Sharp Ink | EAN 9788028334611 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de |…Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
