Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book - (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard.

From the Back Cover

A vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard. Here the words of history's and literature's greats from William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Marcus Aurelius, Charlotte Brontï¿1/2, and Dante to Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, Pythagoras, and Oscar Wilde meet. Originally published posthumously as a tribute to Hubbard, this compilation includes the musings of George Washington on jealousy, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on love, Plato on man, and hundreds of others. The universe's most momentous questions about life and success, as well as love, humanity, nature, and war, unfold in memorable passages. Indexes by author, topic, and poem serve for easy reference.

About the Author

Born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1856, Elbert Hubbard was an American author, businessman, printer, and lecturer. After receiving his M.A. with honors from Tufts College, Hubbard made a living for himself as a soap salesman. During his life, he attained the positions of freelance newspaperman as well as the head of sales and advertising for a manufacturing company. In 1893, a year after his retirement, Hubbard founded his Roycroft Press in East Aurora, New York. The press was built on the model of William Morris's communal Kelmscott Press, which Hubbard had visited. Elbert Hubbard died at sea off of Ireland in 1915 aboard the sinking ship, the Lusitania. Hubbard spent much of his life carefully collecting quotes and passages of significance from history and literature. As he gathered these selections, he added them to his scrap book for his own personal inspiration. Yet, he never once conceived of the idea to publish what had served as spiritual nourishment for his own refreshment and pleasure. Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (pb [F]), now available through Pelican, provides readers, writers, and lovers of words alike with the selections that inspired Hubbard and, to this day, continue to set pulses to beating. For Elbert Hubbard, it was the quest for spiritual knowledge that he relished in his discriminating reading. The quest served its purpose for him and, in continuing to do so for us, forever immortalizes the hopes and efforts of his literary executors. Elbert Hubbard also wrote Letter to Garcia, which Pelican has published.