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REVIEW: THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON
By George S. Clason

‘If thou have been in search of gold; then thou haseth found it.’
That’s how valuable this book is. The Richest man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason is hailed as a modern day classic and it gives it’s reader the feeling to have discovered a book which got lost in time with it’s ancient wisdom and proverbial style of writing. The book is set in Babylonian times and aims to bring forth solutions of problems that have been in existence since the inception of time while accentuating the struggle of men and all the difficulties they face in their course of life and how each of these situations help make them who they are.
The book first appeared in 1926 as series of pamphlets and later on was compiled into a book by borrowing it’s title from the most famous among them, undoubtedly “The Richest Man In Babylon”, and has been in print ever since. The book comprises of a collection of short stories (Babylonian parables) each conveying a very clear message, helping steer the reader’s soul towards understanding the value of wisdom this book has to offer her/him.
The book dawns with a conversation happening between two men, both who after years of toiling and hard work are still unable to get ahead in life and must feel contented by the mere fact of just being able to cloth their family in raiments and provide them with the best food they can afford and during the course of their conversation they are struck by wonder as to how their fellow companion Arkad (one of the prominent characters in the book )from their youth who studied and played with them having the same education as they did has managed to do so well as to become the titular richest man in Babylon. The story proceeds with the two men deciding to pay a visit to Arkad and ask him for his secret of abundant and every growing wealth. Arkad greets them as fellow equals of the land and after being questioned by the lot as to how he was the only one who

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