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    A Message to Garcia: And Treasured Wisdom
    A Message to Garcia: And Treasured Wisdom
    A Message to Garcia: And Treasured Wisdom
    Audiobook (abridged)38 minutes

    A Message to Garcia: And Treasured Wisdom

    Written by Elbert Hubbard and Mitch Horowitz

    Narrated by Mitch Horowitz

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    History's Greatest Motivational Lesson: Now in a Definitive Edition with Gems of Wisdom from Elbert Hubbard

    This remarkably concise, powerful statement on what makes a person successful remains as relevant today as when it was written more than a century ago. If you take seriously the principle of Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia, you will become the indispensible, productive, successful, and respected person you have always wished to be.
    All that is required is for you to “carry a message to Garcia” - which means to do a job simply as it should be done. Discover for yourself the incredible power hidden in this one step.
    This edition of A Message to Garcia surpasses other volumes because it includes short passages of life-advice from Hubbard, which elucidate his message and demonstrate how to put it into action.
    Selected and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, this slender volume offers a life-changing journey into a single idea that can make all the difference in your earning power, effectiveness, and success.

    The Condensed Classics Library
    “40 Minutes to a New You”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateFeb 15, 2016
    ISBN9781469003535
    A Message to Garcia: And Treasured Wisdom
    Author

    Elbert Hubbard

    Elbert Hubbard was born in 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois. He was a writer, publisher, and artist who was an influential member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His best-known work is the short publication A Message to Garcia.

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    • 5/5
      Elbert Hubbard had a way with words! This is his most famous essay, but his other writings that include interviews with luminaries of his time (early 20th century) are also beautifully crafted and worth reading.
    • 2/5
      A message to Garcia is nothing more than a short inspirational essays of not much more than six pages. The self-published author created a hype which made the essay extremely popular. It is claimed to have sold over 40 million copies. The content of the essay is derived from a heroic mission undertaken by Captain Andrew Rowan to convey a message to the Cuban rebels in Spanish-controlled Cuba to establish contact and form an alliance with the United States against Spain.Elbert Hubbard essay, published in 1899, was based on a report he had heard about Andrew Rowan brave mission. Many years later, Andrew Rowan, who was a published author, wrote a short story based on his experience, entitled "How I carried the message to Garcia". While this story is apparently based on Rowan's experience, he has also sometimes asserted that the story is entirely fictional.While A message to Garcia may have had its function in its day, the essay is of no particular value to readers today. It is written in an old-fashioned style, by a boastful and over-self confident author. As the essay is so extremely short, it is now usually printed together with a number of supplementary materials. In the edition by Shanghai Joint Publishing (2010), Andrew Rowan's short story How I carried the message to Garcia is one of the appendices. This is somewhat awkward, because Rowan's story has much more merit, and deserves much more to be read than Hubbard's essay. Rowan's story is a fairly well-written adventurous story of about 40 pages. It would make much more sense to publish Rowan's story and add Hubbard's essay as an appendix.The Chinese edition also includes two further contributions inspired on the theme and related to the aforementioned materials. These contributions are however of a shamefully low quality.The historical background of How I carried the message to Garcia is definitely interesting, and the short story might well be read by a wider audience. Hopefully, the story can be accessed through anthologies.
    • 1/5
      Wow... should I be worried that my boss asked me to read this? He said it was "really good", I found it to be bullshit corporate propaganda.