The Art of Being Right

This edition seems to be a messily reformatted and cheaply-produced copy of the 1896 translation by T.B. Saunders which is freely available online (with much neater formatting) as "The Art of Controversy", but with the translator's preface removed.The book contained no address or other information about the publisher, except for a statement "Printed in San Bernardino, CA" and dated 2 days before I received it (!)The text seems to reproduce the 1896 translation, so you can in principle read Schopenhauer's sarcastic thoughts, but I found the crappy formatting to be enough of a distraction that I couldn't stand more than a couple of pages, and flicking through was annoying enough. Could this be Wittgenstein's revenge?

Interesting book but hard to follow because if the old language And many latin phrases used. Not what I expected.

The book was even better than advertised.

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I learned one or two new tricks from this that I hadn't thought of already. Would have helped me more had I read it in my 20's. Love his comparison of how to win friends with how one treats a dog - "give the mongrel a pat on the head and something to eat and he will love you for life."

After the first 50, the book becomes more a "how to live life" manual of ideas and suggestions. To me, the first 50 pages are actually covering the subject as stated in the title.

Arthur doesn't mess around. This is serious stuff, not for the light reader but if you really wanna get to heart of how and why we think this is it.

It's really a readable book.I'm sure It would give you wisdom in debate and argues you can meet.I bought this for my teenage boy.Book is made good and delevered in time.