A Message to Garcia: An Elbert Hubbard Classic

by Elbert Hubbard

Overview

A Message to Garcia is a best-selling inspirational essay written in 1899 by Elbert Hubbard that has been made into two motion pictures. It was the first of a series of essays on business problems, which, when placed in the proper hands, have helped to lighten the burden on the businessman’s shoulders. It was originally published as a filler without a title in the March, 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine which he edited, but was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book. It was wildly popular, selling over 40 million copies, and being translated into 37 languages. It also became a well-known allusion in American popular and business culture until the middle of the twentieth century. According to language expert Charles Earle Funk, “to take a message to Garcia” was for years a popular American slang expression for taking initiative and was used by many people who were unaware of its origins.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014555401
Publisher:	ReadaClassic
Publication date:	04/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	42
File size:	78 KB

About the Author

Elbert Green Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.