Teach Yourself to Live

Teach Yourself To Live is a self-help classic from a very distant age. Then, as now, the self-help world was dominated by energetic Americans preaching the secrets of limitless achievement. But from the off this delightfully dry, wise and pragmatic book offers something quite different - a sober, somewhat stern, but ultimately generous guide to living in a world blighted by modernity and taxes. Nostalgic, funny and charming, this book somewhat bad-temperedly insists the reader not get ideas above his or her station - yet it ends up delivering a bracing, empowering guide to knowing yourself and living well (despite it all). Oliver Burkeman called this book a place of stability and solid ground amid the rushing omnibuses. Full of fascinating and unexpected revelations, Teach Yourself To Live flips self-help on its head and provides a marvelous insight into the way we used to feel about life and how to live it.