A Message To Garcia And Selected Essays Of Elbert Hubbard

by Elbert Hubbard

This literary trifle, "A Message to Garcia," was written one evening after supper, in a single hour. It was on the Twenty-second of February, Eighteen Hundred Ninety-nine, Washington’s Birthday, and we were just going to press with the March "Philistine." The thing leaped hot from my heart, written after a trying day, when I had been endeavoring to train some rather delinquent villagers to abjure the comatose state and get radioactive. The immediate suggestion, though, came from a little argument over the teacups, when my boy Bert suggested that Rowan was the real hero of the Cuban War. Rowan had gone alone and done the thing—carried the message to Garcia. It came to me like a flash! Yes, the boy is right, the hero is the man who does his work—who carries the message to Garcia. - Taken from "A Message To Garcia" written by Elbert Hubbard. This edition also contains selected writings of Elbert Hubbard on Morality, Success and more

76 pages, Paperback

Published January 17, 2019

About the author

Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia.

Also known as Fra Elbert Green, for the magazine he edited, Fra.

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Reviews

[Benjamin Lipscomb · Rating 1 out of 5]

I received this slim collection of essays as a gift, years and years ago; I finally read it tonight. As a period piece, it repaid the hour spent. Living within an hour's drive of East Aurora where Hubbard and the Roycrofters worked, I was glad for a look through this window into their founder's guiding ideals: an idiosyncratic mix of Horatio Alger, Herbert Spencer, and guild socialism. The writing is blustery. Imagine being hectored by a weirder, more idealistic Henry Wilcox. I can't rate it any higher than I have, notwithstanding how famous the lead essay was in its time. But I'm not sorry I read it either.

[Colette · Rating 5 out of 5]

In thoroughly enjoyed this excellent little compendium of short essays, each of which contained several little gems of thought.
My copy is was published in 1916 and has a green leather cover and 87 pages. I don't actually know if it contains the same exact essays as the one I'm marking as read but it's about the closest I could get.