Book description
The classic self-help guide, full of timeless wisdom
Florence Scovel Shinn’s The Game of Life and How to Play It first appeared in bookstores in 1925 and is now considered a classic in the self-help genre. The author’s insights into achieving meaning, happiness and success are just as relevant and effective today as they were nearly a century ago, hence its reissue as part of the exciting Capstone Classics line.
This collectible, hard-back edition of The Game of Life and How to Play It includes an insightful introduction by series editor and self-help expert Tom Butler-Bowdon. Tom is an authority on classic self-help texts and adroitly connects the content of this book with the concerns of modern readers.
- Enjoy the colourful anecdotes of 1920s New York that have made Scovel Shinn’s book a cult classic
- Discover the original “life hacks” for advancing in every area of your life, from health to wealth to love
- Succeed by attuning yourself with the unchanging principles that govern the universe
With the release of this Capstone Classics edition, we finally have an authoritative, collectible version of The Game of Life and How to Play It. Find out why The Game of Life and How to Play It is one of the defining self-help guides of the 20th century.
Table of contents
- Cover
- An Introduction
- About Tom Butler-Bowdon
- Chapter I: The Game
- Chapter II: The Law of Prosperity
- Chapter III: The Power of the Word
- Chapter IV: The Law of Nonresistance
- Chapter V: The Law of Karma and The Law of Forgiveness
- Chapter VI: Casting the Burden: Impressing the Subconscious
- Chapter VII: Love
- Chapter VIII: Intuition or Guidance
- Chapter IX: Perfect Self-Expression or The Divine Design
- Chapter X: Denials and Affirmations
- Chapter XI: The Secret Door to Success
- Chapter XII: Bricks Without Straw
- Chapter XIII: “And Five of Them Were Wise”
- Chapter XIV: What Do You Expect?
- Chapter XV: The Long Arm of God
- Chapter XVI: The Fork in the Road
- Chapter XVII: Crossing Your Red Sea
- Chapter XVIII: The Watchman at the Gate
- Chapter XIX: The Way of Abundance
- Chapter XX: I Shall Never Want
- Chapter XXI: Look With Wonder
- Chapter XXII: Catch Up With Your Good
- Chapter XXIII: Rivers in the Desert
- Chapter XXIV: The Inner Meaning of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: The Game of Life and How to Play It
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2020
- Publisher(s): Capstone
- ISBN: 9780857088406
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