A Message to Garcia: And Other Essays

Elbert Hubbard

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Authorized edition, published 1924.

48 pages, Hardcover

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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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Benjamin Lipscomb

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August 16, 2023

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

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January 17, 2019

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.

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