Author: James Allen
Narrator: Anthony Lakes
Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Smith Show Media Group
Published: 02/20/2012
Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help
James Allen (1864-1912) was a British writer and pioneer of the self-help movement. Born to a working-class family in Leicester, England, Allen left school at age fifteen, after which he worked as a private secretary and later as a magazine writer. In 1902, he began to publish his own spiritual magazine, The Light of Reason. Over the course of his life, Allen wrote nineteen books, some of which include As a Man Thinketh, Eight Pillars of Prosperity, Above Life's Turmoil, From Passion to Peace, and From Poverty to Power.
Once I read "As a Man Thinketh," I went out and searched for every James Allen book that I could find! All of his books are so powerful in meaning, and will help everyone who reads them gain wisdom.......more
One of my all time favourite nonfiction authors now, any James Allen book does leave me quite impressed. I have read and loved As a Man Thinketh by the author, a book which I keep rereading every-time I need comfort and peace. This book too has brought me so much wisdom and gives perfect explanations......more
I had the 1907 edition when I started this book. My Dad had read it and he had passed it on to one of his co-workers to read it and they both said it was quite life changing. I have to agree. I do think that this book is life changing, but I also did have my issues with it. This is in no way a horri......more
I don't know how it all started, I think it was when I was seven in my grandpa's library (or as my grandma calls it, the dungeon), but somehow, some day, I got addicted to the self help genre, and being that Allen is a pioneer of these feel moochie and warm inside "As a Man Thinketh" types books, I......more