ACRES OF DIAMONDS

by Russell H Conwell

plus

THE MAGIC STORY

by Frederich Van Rensselaer Dey

Two all-time best-selling success classice in one volume

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New softcover book, 161 pages. Published 2007.

With Acres of Diamonds the reader is shown one of the greatest lessons anyone can learn: how to find your own wealth, now, right where you are, with the resources you already possess.
"Opportunity does not just come along - it is there all the time - we just have to see it."    Earl Nightingale
A true and wonderfully inspiring story. Acres of Diamonds originated as a speech which Conwell delivered over 6,000 times around the world.

The central idea of the work is that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune - the resources to achieve all good things are present in your own community. This theme is developed by an introductory anecdote, told to Conwell by an Arab guide, about a man who wanted to find diamonds so badly that he sold his property and went off in futile search for them; the new owner of his home discovered that a rich diamond mine was located right there on the property. Conwell elaborates on the theme through examples of success, genius, service, or other virtues involving ordinary people.

The Magic Story caused an immediate and worldwide sensation when it first appeared in 'Success' magazine in 1900.  Its message remains just as relevant today.
Discover for yourself this simple yet powerful way to achieve personal success. Before The Greatest Salesman in the World, The Richest Man in Babylon, and Acres of Diamonds, The Magic Story captured the imagination of people worldwide, inspiring them to reach for ever-greater levels of success. Since its first publication, this timeless parable has sold tens of millions of copies.

About the authors

Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for his inspirational lecture Acres of Diamonds. He was born in South Worthington, Massachusetts and was buried in the Founder's Garden at Temple University.

Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey (February 10, 1861 – April 25, 1922) was an American pulp fiction writer.
He was born in Watkins Glen, New York to David Peter Dey and Emma Brewster Sayre. He attended the Havana Academy, and later graduated from the Columbia University Law School. He practiced law and was a junior partner of William J. Gaynor. Dey took up writing while recovering from an illness. His first long story was written for Beadle and Adams in 1881. In 1891, Street & Smith hired him to continue a series of novelettes, begun by John R. Coryell, on the adventures of Nick Carter. Dey wrote between one thousand and eleven hundred "Nick Carter" stories. Dey married Annie Shepard, of Providence, Rhode Island on June 4, 1885 and they had two children.
Depressed and penniless after the collapse of the pulp fiction market, Dey shot himself in his room in the Hotel Broztell in New York City, during the night of April 25, 1922 or the morning of April 26, 1922. The body was found by Charles E. MacLean, the managing editor for Street & Smith.

Acres of Diamonds by Russell H Conwell plus The Magic Story by Frederich Van Rensselaer Dey