The Definitive James Allen: 19 books, with previously unpublished articles, letters, editorials, & a biography
Language: English
Published by Brimir & Blainn, 2026
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- Title
- The Definitive James Allen: 19 books, with previously unpublished articles, letters, editorials, & a biography
- Author
- Allen, James
- Publisher
- Brimir & Blainn
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1918388512
- ISBN 13
- 9781918388510
For over a century, the words of James Allen have guided millions toward a life of purpose, peace, and inner mastery. As A Man Thinketh was one of the first and most influential self-help books, it was the book that made his name and fortune, and allowed him the freedom to write eighteen other books in the period of a decade before his untimely death.
But who was the man who lived these truths before he wrote them? And what were the original ideas, the private wrestlings, the forgotten writings, that shaped and sustained his philosophy?
This collection presents all nineteen of his books in full, from the visionary From Poverty to Power to the posthumous The Shining Gateway and The Divine Companion, edited by his wife and collaborator Lily Allen.
For the first time, this edition includes rare, previously uncollected material drawn from Allen's own periodical and from contemporary sources. These include a contemporaneous biographical portrait from 1916, written shortly after his death, tracing his journey from a working-class Leicester boyhood that was cut short at fifteen when his father was tragically murdered two days after reaching America in search of work, through years of quiet inner transformation, to his withdrawal to the Devon cliffs, where he became a pioneering voice of the New Thought movement.
Also included are selections from The Light of Reason, the spiritual magazine Allen founded in 1902 and edited until his death. He used it to connect a national network of readers he called the Brotherhood of the School of Virtue. Gathered here are his editorials, short essays, poems, and replies to readers' letters. These intimate, unguarded writings provide a rare glimpse into the lived reality of an author whose mission consumed his every waking moment.
Finally, magazine articles never before collected in book form are included, such as "How Pain Leads to Knowledge and Power" and the poem "Comment On Confucius".
Together, these materials reveal Allen's philosophy not as abstract theory but as a living practice, tested daily, refined in community, and always rooted in hard-won experience.
As Lily Allen wrote;
He never wrote theories, or for the sake of writing; but he wrote when he had a message, and it became a message only when he had lived it out in his own life.
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