Simple Success

by Arnold Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Emmet Fox

Overcome any obstacle and build the life you've dreamed of


Life is never simple. There are brilliant highs and bitter lows for everyone, but Simple Success is your guide to navigating both with courage and wisdom. This collection of time-honored books will help you build a life you love no matter what comes your way. Whether you’re negotiating financial struggles and career setbacks or looking to build on your momentum and seize your potential, the proven wisdom and advice in Simple Success can help you find a path towards happiness.

This volume features seven powerful works,
The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn
Let Ambition Be Your Master and other works by Napoleon Hill
The Golden Key by Emmet Fox
How to Attract Money by Joseph Murphy
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
The A Story That Tells You How to Be One by Peter B. Kyne
A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

These books have changed the lives of millions of readers―now it’s your turn!

384 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2023

About the author

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
Born into a modest but upwardly mobile family in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, Bennett was intended by his father, a solicitor, to follow him into the legal profession. Bennett worked for his father before moving to another law firm in London as a clerk at the age of 21. He became assistant editor and then editor of a women's magazine before becoming a full-time author in 1900. Always a devotee of French culture in general and French literature in particular, he moved to Paris in 1903; there the relaxed milieu helped him overcome his intense shyness, particularly with women. He spent ten years in France, marrying a Frenchwoman in 1907. In 1912 he moved back to England. He and his wife separated in 1921, and he spent the last years of his life with a new partner, an English actress. He died in 1931 of typhoid fever, having unwisely drunk tap-water in France.
Many of Bennett's novels and short stories are set in a fictionalised version of the Staffordshire Potteries, which he called The Five Towns. He strongly believed that literature should be accessible to ordinary people and he deplored literary cliques and élites. His books appealed to a wide public and sold in large numbers. For this reason, and for his adherence to realism, writers and supporters of the modernist school, notably Virginia Woolf, belittled him, and his fiction became neglected after his death. During his lifetime his journalistic "self-help" books sold in substantial numbers, and he was also a playwright; he did less well in the theatre than with novels but achieved two considerable successes with Milestones (1912) and The Great Adventure (1913).
Studies by Margaret Drabble (1974), John Carey (1992), and others have led to a re-evaluation of Bennett's work. The finest of his novels, including Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923), are now widely recognised as major works.

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essays for the Highs and Lows of Life

This collection of previously published books is about how you can deal with both the highs and lows of life. These books are not new they have been around for many years and people in all stages of life have found meaning in them.

My favorite was “The Game of Life”. Life is full of curve balls just when things seems to be going well you may have a catastrophe or at least a major stumble. Shin points out that most things are either good or bad depending on how you perceive them. If we see life as more positive than negative it will change how we view our experiences. I found this very helpful.

I highly recommend this book if you’re struggling with the problems of life, but it’s also a good thing to read when life is going well to gain perspective for the future.

Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for this book.

[Kelly_Reads_Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection of previously written books by various authors. I think every time you read this collection of stories you will walk away with at least one idea, a thought, a change of mindset that you didn't previously have.
This one resonated with me the most and I will probably read it over and over again.
How to attract money by Joseph Murphy was thoughtful and thorough in it's words, allowing the reader to focus on what means the most to them at that given time.
"Read it with an open mind and an open heart, and see what positive ideas speak to you most. And then try to implement those positive ideas in your life."

[Fireplace.Bookworm · Rating 2 out of 5]

I stopped reading at 42% personally I felt the collections were entirely too long for “simple” success. I grew frustrated with how long it was taking me to get through the book and how lost I was due to the excerpts just being excerpts.

I think this would be a great book in book format but on my kindle it was tough to read. I also think it would be good for someone who has read many of these books before and could use this as a quick reference. As someone that hasn’t read any of the included texts I was more lost and frustrated.

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I always appreciate a good nonfiction read that inspires me to go for my dreams. Simple Success discusses how to be sure in life. What do people do to be successful and how can one stay successful. This was a quick read I will refer back to at a later date.