SOURCE_MANIFEST — Samuel Smiles
Smiles died 1904 — everything is deep public domain.
| work | file | edition | URL | confidence | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance | selfhelp_pg935.txt |
Project Gutenberg #935 (David Price transcription of the standard text) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/935 | high | The founding Victorian self-improvement book (1st ed. 1859; this text is the enlarged standard edition). Complete: preface + 13 chapters. Smiles's own spellings/punctuation preserved (enfeebling, invigorates, _italic_ markers, curly quotes “ ” and dashes —). |
Corpus assembled
The single proof work is Self-Help. See CORPUS_BOUNDARY.md for the exact
chapters selected as the evidence pool and for the status of Character
(1871), which is touched only as an out-of-corpus cross-reference in v1.
Attribution layers (voice metadata)
voice: smiles— Smiles's own expository voice (the connective argument of
each chapter). This is almost the whole book.- Inside Smiles's prose he quotes many others (Mill, Disraeli, Newton, Buffon,
Cobden, Wellington, Scott, proverbs). Those are quotations reported by
Smiles: they are verbatim in the corpus, but the note names the reported
speaker. Smiles endorses them by citing them; they are evidence for his
doctrine, not independent authorities in this KB.
RU layer
No clean PD Russian translation of Self-Help was ingested for this corpus. All
Russian renderings in this vault are our own careful translations from the PD
English, marked «перевод наш». English is the primary evidence pool; every
evidence blockquote is a verbatim English substring of selfhelp_pg935.txt.
Self-check
scripts/verify_quotes.py re-checks that every > blockquote in concepts/,
principles/ and chains/ is a whitespace-normalized, case-exact verbatim
substring of sources/selfhelp_pg935.txt, and that every [[wikilink]]
resolves. sources/qsearch.py is the single-phrase helper used while writing.